Italian sport shooter (born 1989)
Petra Zublasing
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Born | (1989-06-30) 30 June 1989 (age 35) Bolzano, Italy |
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Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) |
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Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) |
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Sport | Sport shooting |
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Petra Zublasing (born 30 June 1989) is an Italian sport shooter who won the 10 m air rifle event at the 2014 World Championships.
Career
She first competed internationally in 2003, having begun sports shooting in 2001.[1]
She competed in the Women's 10 metre air rifle and the women's 50 metre three positions events at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[2][3] She won her first World Cup event in 2013 in Granada.[4] In 2014, she won her greatest title to date, winning the women's 10 m air rifle event at the 2014 World Championships.[1] To win, she beat the then reigning Olympic champion Yi Siling by 0.3 points with the last shot of the event.[5] Earlier that year, she had set a new world record in the women's 50 m three positions event at the World Cup event in Fort Benning, having set the previous world record at the 2013 World Cup Final in Munich.[6][7]
At the 2016 Olympics she competed in the same two events, reaching the final in the 50 m.[3] She studied at West Virginia University.[8]
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Awards
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Preceded by
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ISSF Shooter of the Year 2014
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Succeeded by
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