Brázdová shot silver in the World Cup final, Lipták bronze
Rifleman Lucie Brázdová took second place in air rifle shooting in the World Cup final. Olympic trap champion Jiří Lipták won bronze in Cairo.
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Jiří Lipták
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In her first participation in the President’s Cup, Brázdová lost in the final 10:16 to European vice-champion Océanne Muller. The Frenchwoman was already the best in Wednesday’s qualification and in the Egyptian metropolis she did not find a conqueror in any of the four competition rounds.
Brázdová, who dominated this discipline at the World Cup in Changwon in July, was third in the qualification, from the quarter-final group of four she advanced to the six together with Muller, where she also defeated American shooter Sagen Maddalena.
Lipták, who became the European champion for the second time this year in Larnaca, dominated his quarter-final group after sixth place in the qualification and was close to progressing to the fight for gold in the half. In the duel between the last two Olympic champions, he drew with Croatian rival Josip Glasnović 5:5 and then lost the shootout 5:6. At the President’s Cup, Lipták followed up on last year’s silver in Larnaca, where he lost to David Kostelecky in the final.
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Glasnovič will face the American Derrick Scott Mein in Saturday’s final, while Talal Rashidi from Kuwait won the bronze with Lipták.
Petr Nymburský, who succeeded in Thursday’s qualification in the three-position shooting from a possible small rifle, remained in the game for a medal in Cairo. His colleague Jiří Přívratský did not fit into the top eight and finished eleventh, as did Martin Strnad in the rapid-fire pistol, and Veronika Blažíčková also failed in the sports small-bore 3×40 rounds (12th). Already in the middle of the competition, Barbora Šumová in skeet (10th), Přívratský in air rifle, Pavel Schejbal in air pistol and Jakub Tomeček in skeet (all 11th) finished the competition.
Shooters qualified for the President’s Cup in the 12th Olympic disciplines based on their ranking in the world ranking up to 12th place. Nine representatives in the SP final means the highest Czech participation in history.