EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2005

BG Sports Centre Kovilovo, Belgrade was the host of the European Championships from July 02 to July 15, 2005 for the 25m/50m/300m/Running targets/ Clay Targets in all the shooting events and categories (event 300m took place in Pancevo). The 20th General Assembly of European Shooting Confederation (ESC) was held at the beginning of the European Championships, where the bodies and committees of ESC were elected for the next four years.

45 countries and 974 competitors with 1351 entries took part in the European Championships. Exceptional quality of the shooting range, being amongst the best in the world, were the basis to enable the competitors to break many of the European and World records, that are enlisted in the European Shooting Confederation and International Shooting Sport Federation register.

New records:

18 European records ( 7 team and 11 individual)
9 World records ( 6 team and 3 individual)

Record equaled:

3 European records (1 team and 2 individual)
2 World records ( 1 team and 1 individual)

The Championships were widely covered by international and local media, both by press and TV and Radio, by more then 100 accredited journalists.

The Serbia and Montenegro team took 4 medals (2 gold and 2 bronze).

Gold Medals:

JASNA SEKARIC in Sports pistol 30+30 bullets event (national record equaled)

JUNIOR TEAM WOMEN in MK riffle 60 bullets laying event (Zivkovic Jelena, Arsovic Andrea and Scepinski Ivana)

Bronze Medals:

Zivkovic Jelena in MK riffle 60 meters laying event – juniors (national record equaled)

SENIORS in MK pistol free selection with new national record:

Zlatic Andrej (new individual national record)
Grgic Dimitrije
Mikec Damir

In clay targets events (TRAP) our national team took 15th place with 325 targets (Rade Pavlovic, Predrag Sotra and Dejan Mihajlovic).

Individual results:

Rade Pavlovic – 53rd place with 109 targets

Predrag Sotra – 55th place with 109 targets

Dejan Mihajlovic – 64th place with 107 targets

All of the competitors expressed their wish to come again in the near future. We are positive that this shooting range, which is proclaimed to be one of the official training centers of the European Shooting Confederation (ESC), will soon have the opportunity to once again welcome the top quality shooters and to promote the new ones.