By Sports Reporter/Doha

Italy topped the medals tally with four gold medals, while Qatar bagged three titles in team competitions as the 2nd CISM International Shotgun Championship concluded at the Losail Shooting Complex yesterday.
Both the individual competitions in the men’s trap and skeet went to the Italians. While Lt. Col. Massimo Crosse took the gold in the trap with 14 hits out of 16, Private Luigi Lodde won the skeet title with a 100 per cent score of 16 in the final.
Armed forces personnel from 10 countries took part in the tournament held under the aegis of the international military sports council, a body which seeks to promote peace and understanding among its more than 100 member nations through regular sporting interaction.
Qatar fielded two teams – Qatar-1 and Qatar-2, both winning a combined total of 12 medals, including three gold, four silver and five bronze. All three gold medals for Qatar came in the team competitions, however. The Qatar-1 team comprising Privates Deena al-Tabaishi, Reem al-Sharshani and Hanan Haji took the gold with a score of 188 in the women’s skeet final.
Qatar-2 finished second for silver with Privates Sara Mohamed, Meshael al-Shammari and Hajar Mohamed shooting 185. Bahrain took the bronze.
The women’s trap team also delivered for Qatar. However, it was Qatar-2, represented by Privates Amna al-Abdulla, Kholoud al-Khalaf and Metha al-Binali, who claimed the gold with 190 points, this time relegating Qatar-1, who scored 185, to second spot. Oman won the bronze, but they were way too behind on 124.
Meanwhile, the Qatar-2 team claimed the men’s trap gold – Mohamed al-Kuwari, Ali Ahmed al-Ishaq and Hamad Menkhis shooting a score of 252.
Italy, represented by Lodde, Emanuele Fuso and Valerio Anderson bagged the silver with 349, while Qatar-1, comprising Saeed Abu Sharib, Khalid al-Mohannadi and Abdullah Saleh al-Attiyah, took the bronze with 346. Military officials from participating countries were in attendance at the closing ceremony. As required by military sports rules, all medal winners attended the ceremony in their military uniforms, with martial music reverberating across the vast expanse of the Losail Shooting Complex. The function was attended by Major General Mohamed Ali al-Madeed, who is also the president of the Qatar Shooting Federation and Brigadier Dahlan al-Hamad, the president of the Qatar Athletics Federation. Qatar, as has been already reported, is bidding for the Military World Games in 2019.