There was great excitement before the last medal chance for the Norwegian shooters on Friday. There, Jeanette Hegg Duestad, who had previously been considered a strong medal candidate, had the opportunity to save the Norwegian shooters’ honor in the Olympics with a medal. After three different exercises and fantastic shooting, Hegg Duestad could celebrate Norway’s first Olympic medal in Paris. After three different exercises and a good start in kneeling and prone shooting, it was clear in the last rounds in the standing shooting. – Small crack With a high starting heart rate in the kneeling shooting, Hegg Duestad was in fifth place. – Right before the start, she has shot well to the pulse I think she has, it’s just that the above have shot extremely well here at the start, says news’s expert commentator Katrine Aannestad Lund. On the floor, Hegg Duestad continued his good shooting and climbed up one place in the table. – Very impressive what she has delivered so far here. Really in the medal fight here, Jeanette Hegg Duestad says news’s commentator Ola Lunde. With the enormous pressure on the most common exercise, standing shooting, Hegg Duestad was still in the running for a medal. She started extremely well and was in second place after the first round of standing shooting. In the second round, she lost a number of points in the medal match. She was thus one place before the last round. – Very heavy what is happening with Jeanette here now. Almost have to say that there is a small crack, says Ola Lunde. In the last round, she starts with 10.9 points. And had to have good shots to continue in the medal match. When she shoots 10.6 in the next shot, Hegg Duestad is also among the top four. – It cannot be Jeanette who gets fourth place. It cannot happen again. But with two fourth places in the Olympics in Tokyo in 2021, it happened again for Hegg Duestad, who gets his third 4th pass in the Olympics. Saved final place after miserable start Hegg Duestad described the qualification for the final as a roller coaster. There she got off to a bad start before the shots really came towards the end. – I fight with my beak and claw through the rest of the kneeling, said Duestad about the bad start. The wind conditions varied and it did not look like the Norwegian women fixed the conditions. Coach Espen Berg-Knutsen says she got out of step with the wind at the start of the competition. But then it turned around. For Hegg Duestad suddenly shot up the charts. Before standing shooting, she was in 9th place after a perfect series. Eight would secure a place in the final. And she continued with impressive shooting and continued her journey up the list and was finally in 5th place – It is phenomenal what she is delivering now, said Lunde towards the end of the qualification, which secured the final place for Hegg Duestad. – It does not hold at that level here. The margins have not been on the side of the Norwegian shooters in the Olympics in Paris. In the mixed team competition in 10 meter air rifle, Jon-Hermann Hegg and Jeanette Hegg Duestad missed out on advancement in the Olympic shooting by the smallest possible margin. By the time the two had completed their 60 shots, the team was in what appeared to be a solid fourth place. That would have provided a place in a bronze final. But towards the end the Germans Maximilian Ulbrich and Anna Janssen delivered their best series of the day which saw them finish on 629.7 points. It was 0.1 point more than Norway. 0.1 POINT: Jeanette Hegg Duestad and Jon-Hermann Hegg were only 0.1 points away from a bronze final earlier in the championship. Photo: Norges Skytterforbund / NTB In the individual competition in 10 meter air rifle, Hegg was 0.2 points away from the final, while Hegg Duestad made it to the final. In the final it was tough and Hegg Duestad finished last of the eight final participants. Yesterday, Hegg was in the final in the 50 meter rifle. There it started very well for the Norwegian, who led after kneeling and prone shooting. But in the enormous pressure of the standing shooting, he missed the medal opportunities. He eventually finished fifth last shooter. – I do everything I can and it gets tough standing up, and it doesn’t last at that level here, said a disappointed Hegg to news after the final. Published 02.08.2024, at 10.23 Updated 02.08.2024, at 10.24
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Jeanette Hegg Duestad came fourth in the 50 meter rifle – Olympics Paris 2024
