Fátima Gálvez of Spain and N. Tolga Tuncer of Türkiye won the senior trap titles at the European Shotgun Championship in Athens on October 9. The ISSF’s October 11 roundup records Gálvez’s winning final total of 26 targets, ahead of Italy’s Silvana Maria Stanco on 24 and Jessica Rossi on 20.
The men’s title required an additional separation. Tuncer and Slovakia’s Erik Varga both finished on 29 before Tuncer won the shoot-off 3–2. Great Britain’s Aaron Heading took bronze with 24. The report also identifies Italy’s Valentina Archetti and Türkiye’s Egemen Agca as the junior individual champions.
Championship roundups are most useful when they preserve the distinction between senior, junior and team competitions. Combining all the medals into one sweeping national narrative can obscure the individual performances that produced them. Here, the women’s and men’s senior finals offer different endings: one established a winning margin in the final total, while the other needed a shoot-off.
For readers building their understanding of shotgun sport, the next step is to follow one event from its qualification list through the final classification. That is more informative than assuming every discipline or age group has identical scoring. It also makes it easier to recognize which records belong to qualification and which belong to a final. Gunfire is reporting the named results, not reproducing the federation’s full championship archive. We have not independently assessed athlete technique or equipment, and this article contains no implied product endorsements. The linked organizer report remains the place to consult the broader program, with its separate categories and results kept intact.
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