{"id":1223,"date":"2023-07-27T02:44:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T16:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/dane-sampson-hungary-for-a-bronze-medal\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T15:15:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T05:15:51","slug":"dane-sampson-hungary-for-a-bronze-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/dane-sampson-hungary-for-a-bronze-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"DANE SAMPSON HUNGARY FOR A BRONZE MEDAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"s4\"><span class=\"s5\">Overnight, Australia\u2019s Dane Sampson won the bronze medal in the 10m Air Rifle <\/span><span class=\"s5\">Men\u2019s <\/span><span class=\"s5\">event at the <\/span><span class=\"s5\">Masped<\/span><span class=\"s5\"> Cup in <\/span><span class=\"s5\">Budapest, <\/span><span class=\"s5\">Hungary<\/span><span class=\"s5\">, <\/span><span class=\"s5\">an international competition attracting participation from 18 countries including athletes ranked within the top 20 in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\"><span class=\"s5\">Sampson shot a score of 626.1<\/span><span class=\"s5\">, qualifying for a place in the <\/span><span class=\"s5\">fina<\/span><span class=\"s5\">l where his performance was strong<\/span><span class=\"s5\">,<\/span><span class=\"s5\"> shooting an average of 10.4 over the 22 shots he fired. <\/span><span class=\"s5\">Of his performance in the 10m Air Rifle Men\u2019s event that captured a high level of competition, Sampson said, \u201cThe qualification was <\/span><span class=\"s5\">tough<\/span><span class=\"s5\"> and I had to work pretty hard\u2026and I had to work through a bit of a struggle which is good preparation for World Champs. The final was <\/span><span class=\"s5\">good<\/span><span class=\"s5\"> and I started off great. It was close at the end but still third place is great for an international competition.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/dane-sampson-hungary-for-a-bronze-medal\/4th-image\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9926\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9926 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/4th-image-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\"><span class=\"s5\">With the event in Hungary an important part of preparation for the upcoming World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan in August, Sampson says, \u201cIt is always great to be in this environment with the [<\/span><span class=\"s5\">athletes] \u00a0we<\/span><span class=\"s5\"> will be competing with at World Champs. It\u2019s a nice build up in a space that you can <\/span><span class=\"s5\">really just<\/span><span class=\"s5\"> focus on the sport.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/dane-sampson-hungary-for-a-bronze-medal\/2nd-image\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9925\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9925 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2nd-image-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"357\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\"><span class=\"s5\">Fellow Australian Jack Rossiter shot a score of 631.2 to also qualify for a place in the final, and with a score <\/span><span class=\"s5\">in the final <\/span><span class=\"s5\">of 165.5, finished the event in 6<\/span><span class=\"s6\">th<\/span><span class=\"s5\"> place.<\/span><span class=\"s5\"> Both Sampson and Rossiter also competed in the 50m Rifle 3 Position and 50m Rifle Prone events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\"><span class=\"s5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/dane-sampson-hungary-for-a-bronze-medal\/3rd-image\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9927\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9927 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3rd-image-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s5\">The Australian Rifle Teams World Championship preparation will now continue in Czech Republic, joined by team member Elise Collier. The team will train with the Czech team in Plzen before competing in the Czech Cup #3 ahead of their departure to Baku for the World Championships.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight, Australia\u2019s Dane Sampson won the bronze medal in the 10m Air Rifle Men\u2019s event at the Masped Cup in Budapest, Hungary, an international competition attracting participation from 18 countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}