Petra Zublasing (born 30 June 1989) is an Italian

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who won the 10 m air rifle event at the 2014 World Championships.

Career

She first competed internationally in 2003, having begun sports shooting in 2001. She competed in the Women's 10 metre air rifle and the women's 50 metre three positions events at the

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. She won her first World Cup event in 2013 in

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. In 2014, she won her greatest title to date, winning the women's 10 m air rifle event at the 2014 World Championships. To win, she beat the then reigning Olympic champion Yi Siling by 0.3 points with the last shot of the event. Earlier that year, she had set a new world record in the women's 50 m three positions event at the World Cup event in

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, having set the previous world record at the 2013 World Cup Final in

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. At the

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she competed in the same two events, reaching the final in the 50 m. She studied at

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zublasing, Petra 1989 births Living people Italian female sport shooters Olympic shooters of Italy Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Bolzano West Virginia Mountaineers rifle shooters Shooters at the 2015 European Games European Games gold medalists for Italy European Games medalists in shooting Universiade medalists in shooting Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games medalists in shooting Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Universiade gold medalists for Italy Shooters at the 2019 European Games Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade 20th-century Italian women 21st-century Italian women