Darya Rozhniatovska played a key role in increasing Ukraine's final gold medal tally to eight ©ISSF

Ukraine capped off an impressive performance at the 2016 International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Running Target World Championship by claiming gold medals in both the individual and team junior mixed women’s 10 metres events in German city Suhl.

Darya Rozhniatovska beat France’s Florence Louis to individual gold with her total of 368 points adding to those of Yuliya Tymoshko, 353, and Viktoriia Stetsiura, 351, to earn Ukraine team success with 1,072. 

Louis came second in the individual event with 362 points, followed by Finland’s Elli Rasanen with 358.

The Russian trio of Anna Kostina, Kseniia Anufrieva and Natalia Pochatkova took team silver with 1,054 points, while the home outfit comprising Eva Maria Oestreicher, Nicola Inge Mueller-Fassbender and Carolin Moesslang claimed bronze with 944.

Ukraine’s double triumph gave them a final tally of eight gold medals, five more than nearest challengers Russia and China on three each.

Other individual wins for the Ukrainians came courtesy of Ihor Kizyma in the junior men’s 50m and junior mixed men’s 50m, and Galina Avramenko in the senior women’s 10m.

There were also team victories for Kizyma, Maksym Babushok and Dmytro Melnyk in the junior mixed men’s 50m and junior men’s 10m, and Tymoshko, Stetsiura and Rozhniatovska in the junior women’s 10m.

Galina Avramenko was Ukraine's sole senior gold medallist ©ISSF
Galina Avramenko was Ukraine's sole senior gold medallist ©ISSF

Russia’s three gold medals all came at senior level with Maxim Stepanov topping the individual men’s 50m podium and also contributing to team successes in the men’s 50m and mixed men’s 50m alongside Mikhail Azarenko and Dmitry Romanov.

Zeng Yang played a part in all three of China’s triumphs, winning the individual mixed women’s 10m and joining Li Li Zhao and Li Su in securing the women’s 10m and mixed women’s 10m team titles.

Sweden and Finland earned two senior crowns each with the one other going the way of Poland.

Emil Martinsson of Sweden won the individual mixed men’s 10m and 50m, while Finland’s Tomi-Pekka Heikkila, Heikki Lahdekorpi and Krister Holmberg came out on top in the men’s 10m and mixed men’s 10m team events.

Lukasz Czapla struck gold for Poland in the individual men’s 10m.