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France has taken the two top places in 300m Rifle 3 Positions Men and won the gold in the team competition with a world record

01 August 2013

France has taken the two top places in 300m Rifle 3 Positions Men and won the gold in the team competition with a world record

France scored a triumph again. Today the 300m Rifle 3 Positions Men individual and team competitions took place.

Cyril Graff had the honour to get on the highest place of the podium at the Awarding Ceremony. He won the European Championship defeating his teammate Josselin Henry by five points. Graff’s golden result was 1179 points (396,+399+384). Josselin Henry (1174, 52x) won the silver medal beating Marcel Buerge (SUI – 1174,46x  ) and Rajmond Debevec (SLO -1174,46x) with the difference in the inner tens.

France won the team competition with the new world and European record result of 3522 points (1179+ 1174+1169), beating Switzerland (3487) and Norway (3483), which won the silver and the bronze. The team of France was comprised of Cyril Graff, Josselin Henry and Valerian Sauveplane.