The last bullets

The arrows cover the season with the final note of the world rifle season will sound in the capital of Thailand Bangkok. On Friday, the final of the World Cup for bullet shooting, which finishes on Sunday, will begin here.

The World Cup final is a real show. Here everything goes fast and easy. The 10 best shooters in the world without any preliminary series are approaching the line, and after a few minutes the fans will recognize the name of the best of the best. Only the first numbers are allowed here: winners and prize -winners of the stages of the World Cup, as well as last year's winner.

This year, 86 participants from 29 countries gained. Most of them are Chinese athletes: 20 shooters. Then follows Russia, which brought 12 shooters, then the USA and Germany. Competitions are held according to the Olympic program of 10 exercises.

Last year, one experimental dish was tried for dessert. It liked everyone without exception. At the end of the official part, all winners are awarded on a pneumatic rifle or a gun - and please win a prize of 5 thousand euros.

The tournament will be held in the same place that gathered participants in the third stage of the World Cup, in the Bangkok rifle complex. Now here is "cool" - about 30 degrees of heat, the arrows say. In May it was hotter.

Russian arrows will close 7 exercises out of 10, that is, everything except the male pneumatic and low -caliber rifle lying, a female rifle in three positions. “The last vacancy is forced,” the senior coach of the Russian national team Kirill Ivanov told the correspondent of the newspaper. “Lyubov Galkina, the world leader in this exercise, is currently waiting for the child. We understand that she will pick up the same form to the Olympic Games. But in three exercises - pneumatic and low -caliber pistols - we have a solid Representation: Three athletes. "

In 2006, in Granad, the World Cup final took place with the overwhelming superiority of Russian shooters. They won five exercises - half of the program. In addition, twice became second and third. The pistol Alexei Klimov achieved his first success in a world record. What results will be this time, time will tell.

The composition of the Russian team:

Galina Belyaeva, Natalya Paderina, Olga Kuznetsova, Artem Khadzibekov, Vladimir Isakov, Alexey Klimov, Sergey Polyakov, Boris Kokorev, Sergey Alifirenko, Mikhail Nepruev, Leonid Ekimov, Vladimir Goncharov. 04.10.2007 / Tatyana Milevskaya material published in the newspaper No. 186 dated 05.10.2007.