Éva Joó (born 12 April 1970, in Dunaújváros) is a Hungarian sport shooter.[2] She has competed for Hungary in rifle shooting at four Olympics (1988 to 1996, 2004), and has been close to an Olympic medal in 1996 (finishing seventh in the air rifle).[3] Apart from her Olympic career, Joo has successfully produced a career tally of nineteen medals in a major international competition: a gold at the 1990 ISSF World Championships in Moscow, Soviet Union, a total of three (one gold and two bronze) at the ISSF World Cup final, a total of nine (one gold, five silver, and eight bronze) at various meets of the World Cup series, and a remainder of six (three gold, two silver, and one bronze) under both junior and senior categories at the European Championships since her sporting debut in 1987.[1]
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| Full name | Éva Joó | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 April 1970 Dunaújváros, Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.52 m (5 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 10 m air rifle (AR40) 50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Újpesti TE[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | László Hammerl[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editHaving started the sport since the age of twelve, Joo trained under the tutelage of Dr. László Hammerl for the Hungarian National Defense Association (Hungarian: Magyar Honvédelmi Szövetség KLK, MHSZ) in Budapest, and eventually for the national team at Újpesti Sports Academy (Hungarian: Újpesti Torna Egylet).[4]
Joo competed internationally for Hungary at the age of seventeen, and simultaneously pocketed her first medal with a gold in air rifle shooting at the 1987 European Championships in Lahti, Finland. The following year, Joo made her first Hungarian team, as an 18-year-old teen, at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, finishing eleventh in the air rifle and twentieth in the small-bore rifle three positions with scores of 392 and 576 respectively.[5][6]
In 1990, Joo set a junior world record of 496.4 to capture her first ever air rifle title at the Worlds in Moscow, Soviet Union, and then collected another gold at the European Championships in Arnhem, Netherlands with 495.4.[1] Joo's magnificent world-record feat culminated in a selection of being one of clear favorites vying for an Olympic medal at her succeeding Games in Barcelona 1992. There, she finished fifteenth in her pet event, the air rifle, with a score of 390, but eventually ascended to eighth on a marvelous aim in the rifle three positions at 673.6 points, despite losing in a seventh-place duel to Canada's Sharon Bowes.[7][8]
Shortly after her second Games, Joo showed her most potential form in bouncing back to the range by clinching her first ISSF World Cup title in the air rifle final at Munich, Germany a year later, ending up in first place with a personal best of 497.6.[1]
On her third Olympic appearance in Atlanta 1996, Joo landed to her best finish of the meet at seventh position in the 10 m air rifle after she nailed 494.5 on the final match to discreetly elude Ukraine's Lessia Leskiv from last place by just three-tenths of a point (0.3).[9] Joo also competed in the 50 m rifle 3 positions, but failed to reach the final, as she flubbed a few shots in the kneeling stage that saw her plunge down the leaderboard to a tie for twentieth with China's Chen Muhua at 576, just a deficit of five points from the cutoff.[10]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Joo qualified for her historic fourth Hungarian team, as a 34-year-old, in rifle shooting. She managed to get a qualifying score of 580 in the rifle three positions to join with fellow markswoman and debutant Beáta Krzyzewsky and secure an Olympic berth for Hungary after capping off her remarkable eight-year comeback with a fifth-place feat at the ISSF World Cup meet in Fort Benning, Georgia, United States less than a year earlier.[1][11][12] In the 10 m air rifle, held on the first day of the competition, Joo fired a substantial 394 out of a possible 400 to force in a massive draw with five other shooters for fourteenth place, having been much closer to an Olympic final at a slim disadvantage of two points.[13][14] Nearly a week later, in the 50 m rifle 3 positions, Joo marked 195 in prone, a lowly 187 in standing, and 188 in the kneeling series to close her historic Olympic run out of the final in twenty-third position with a total score of 570 points.[15][16]
Olympic results
edit| Event | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2004 |
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| 50 metre rifle three positions | 20th 576 |
8th 580+93.6 |
20th 576 |
23rd 570 |
| 10 metre air rifle | 11th 392 |
15th 390 |
7th 393+101.5 |
14th 394 |
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f "ISSF Profile – Éva Joó". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Éva Joó". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ^ "Három kör hiányzott a döntőbe való jutáshoz" [Missed three rounds to qualify for the final] (in Hungarian). Szekelyhon.ro. 17 November 2004. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ^ "Kiszorulnak a bázisról?" [Forced out of the range?] (in Hungarian). Százhalombattai Hírtükör. 9 December 2009. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ^ "Seoul 1988: Shooting – Women's 10m Air Rifle" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. p. 394. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ^ "Seoul 1988: Shooting – Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. pp. 394–395. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ^ "Barcelona 1992: Shooting – Women's 10m Air Rifle" (PDF). Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. p. 349. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ^ "Barcelona 1992: Shooting – Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions" (PDF). Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. p. 350. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ^ "Atlanta 1996: Shooting – Women's 10m Air Rifle" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 119. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
- ^ "Atlanta 1996: Shooting – Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 120. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
- ^ "Rögös út vezet az athéni olimpiára" [A rough journey to Athens Olympics] (in Hungarian). Origo.hu. 19 June 2003. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ^ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ^ "Shooting: Women's 10m Air Rifle Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ^ "Kínába került az olimpia első aranya" [China takes first gold of the Games] (in Hungarian). Origo.hu. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ^ "Shooting: Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ^ "Joó és Krzyzewsky sem jutott puskadöntőbe" [Joó and Krzyzewsky denied a chance for the rifle final] (in Hungarian). Origo.hu. 20 August 2004. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
External links
edit- Éva Joó at the International Shooting Sport Federation
- Éva Joó at Olympics.com
- Éva Joó at Olympic.org (archived)
- Éva Joó at Olympedia
- Éva Joó at the Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság (in Hungarian) (English translation)
