American duo win mixed team trap gold in Doha
DOHA - United States of America topped the medals tally after William Hinton and Alicia Kathleen Gough won the mixed team trap gold on the final day of the ISSF World Cup Shotgun Doha 2023 at the Lusail Shooting Range on Sunday.
Hinton and Gough beat Kuwait’s Talal Alrashidi and Sarah Alhawal 6-0 in the gold medal match.
USA finished the championship with six medals – three gold, two silver and a bronze. Hinton in particular was on fire yesterday, as he shot a perfect 90, including all of the targets in the qualification round.
The bronze medal was won by Poland’s Sandra Bernal and Piotr Kowalczyk, who edged out Turkiye Pelin Rumeysa Kaya and Tolga Tuncer 6-4 in a thrilling play-off.
The qualification round was topped by Alhawal and AlRashidi after the Kuwaiti duo finished with 145 hits. Hinton and Gough were close second with 144, followed by Kaya and Tuncer and Bernal and Kowalczyk pair’s 143 each.
The Indian pair of Prithviraj Tondaiman and Shreyasi Singh finished sixth as they shot a combined score of 142 out of 150 in the qualification, which was a point less than the bronze medal match qualifying score of 143.
Two Qatari teams, Hassan Kholoud Al Khalaf/Saeed Abusharib and Metha Hamad Albinali/Ahmad Majid Al Khelaifi, finished in 20th and 23rd positions with 133 and 124 hits respectively.
The nine-day World Cup was hosted by the Qatar Shooting and Archery Association under the auspices of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF).
Italy, with one gold medal and three bronze, finished second ahead of Australia and Turkiye who won one gold medal each to share the third place.
The 12-leg ISSF World Cup series will now move to Bhopal, India for the Rifle and Pistol rounds before six more rounds which will take place in Larnaca (Cyprus), Lima (Peru), Cairo (Egypt), Baku (Azerbaijan), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Lonato (Italy) and Rio De Janeiro (Brazil).
A total of 465 athletes from 63 countries including 30 Olympic athletes took part in the ISSF World Cup Shotgun - Doha 2023 (March 5-12).
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