Kazakhstan's athletes failed to qualify for the individual finals in the 10m air rifle event at the World Shooting Championships in Doha. The best results for the national team were shown by Alexandra Le and Islam Satpayev. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.
In the women's qualification, Le scored 629.9 points and took 30th place. The top eight athletes advanced to the final. Olympic champion Pan He Jin of South Korea finished qualification first with 636.9 points.
Two other Kazakhstani women placed in the second half of the final standings. Sofia Shulzhenko scored 623.2 points and finished 85th, while Yelizaveta Bezrukova with 622.6 points took 92nd place.
In the men's qualification, Satpayev was the best among Kazakhstanis. He scored 628.7 points and took 33rd place. Konstantin Malinovsky scored 624.9 points and finished 68th, while Nikita Shakhtorin scored 622.9 and completed qualification in 77th position.
Olympic champion Sheng Lihao of China took first place in qualification with 637.2 points. The top eight earned the right to compete in the final.
The Kazakh men's team, consisting of Satpayev, Malinovsky and Shakhtorin, scored a total of 1876.5 points and took 16th place.
China won gold in the team event, scoring 1901.6 points and setting a new world record. Silver went to Croatia with 1897.6, and bronze to Norway with 1894.1.
The Kazakh women's team, consisting of Le, Shulzhenko and Bezrukova, scored 1875.7 points and finished 17th.
In the women's team standings, China won with 1899.8 points. India took second with 1894.4, and Japan third with 1892.6.
Earlier, Irina Yunusmetova won Kazakhstan's first medal of the tournament, taking bronze in the 50m pistol event.
The World Shooting Championships in rifle and pistol events are being held in Doha, Qatar, from November 1 to 14. Kazakhstan's team is represented by 30 athletes.