Skeet 26th for N.Z.

Press, 26 July 1976, Page 12

Skeet 26th for N.Z.

NZPA staff correspondent Montreal New Zealand's . shooting team at the Olympics completed its programme yesterday' when the Christchurch marksman, John Woolley,! finished twenty-sixth equal' in the skeet event. Woolley had rounds of 25 and 23 in the final two sessions yesterday for an eightround, three-day total of 190. He was eight shots behind the winner, Josef Panacek, of Czechoslovakia,

| who was only two points off ] a perfect 200 score. Woolley, a young man of . almost 26 did exceptionally; well in his first Olympics! and had the satisfaction of! knowing his score was the i second best of the Com,l monwealth shooters in the event, which attracted a field of 68. ! Two other New Zealand >1 shooters finished their event •ion Saturday. Graeme Mclntyre, of Welfi lington, and Grant Taylor, of i; Levin, finished nineteenth fiand twenty-fourth respec-| Jtively in the running game-

f. target competition in which shooters fire at a target f drawn across an opening. Russia won its first shoot- ; . ing gold medal of the Mon- * treal Olympics when Alex- > andr Gazov fired a world ’.! record-shattering score to > take first place in the run[ining game competition. His 579 points out of i a possible 600 beat the old record, by two points. Alexandr Kedyarov, also - of Russia; took the silver f! medal with 576 points and i. Jerzy Greszkiewicz, of Po- • Hand, scored 571 for the i.lbronze.