Armenian shooter Elmira Karapetyan won gold in the women’s 10m air pistol at the ISSF World Cup in Cairo, Egypt, on October 14, reports Zartonk Sports. She topped qualification with 582 points and scored 242.4 in the final to take the title, a result confirmed by the Armenian Shooting Federation.
Bulgaria’s Miroslava Mincheva took silver with 240.2 points, and France’s Camille Jedrzejewski won bronze with 219.3.
Karapetyan, 32, was the first female shooter to represent Armenia at the Olympic Games, competing at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, where she missed the 10m air pistol final by a single point to finish ninth. She has won World Cup gold before, taking the title in Rio de Janeiro in 2023, and won a mixed team silver at the 2023 European Games.
The ISSF World Cup Rifle and Pistol event runs in Cairo from October 8 to 16, serving as a preparatory competition ahead of the ISSF World Championship in Doha, Qatar, from November 1 to 14.
