In the team competition, Latvian shooters won gold in the World Cup.
Latvian athletes Lauris Strautmanis, Emil Vasermanis and Ernst Arbes won gold medals in the team competition in rapid fire from a small caliber pistol at a target with a black circle at a distance of 25 meters at the World Shooting Championships in Qatar on Sunday.
Strautmanis scored 573 points, and Sarmanis added 566 points, and Arbes also won 566 points. As a result, the Latvian team completed the competition with a score of 1,703 points.
Second place in the team competition with 1,700 points was taken by the South Korean team, and the Ukrainian team was in third place with 1,697 points.
In the individual competition, Strautmanis took fourth place, only one point behind third place. Vasermanis finished ninth, and Erves finished the competition in 14th place among 42 competitors.
The world champion in the individual competition was the French athlete Kevin Chapon who scored 578 points.