Grauffel in 7th on first day at AustralAsia

Grauffel in 7th on first day at AustralAsia

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, The Jakarta Post, Sanur, Bali

World champion Eric Grauffel of France ended the opening day
of the AustralAsia Practical Shooting Championship 2004, here on
Monday, in seventh place on provisional standings.

Competing in the Open category, equipped with a handgun super
auto caliber 38, Grauffel had to be content with collected points
of 687.1451.

Chavananand Voravith of Thailand topped the standings with
1304.1537 points.

Djoko Iman Santoso of Indonesia followed in second place with
1052.9747 points, on a day when the home marksmen posed a
generally moderate performance in the initial challenge.

Another two local competitors, Gerry Sutanandika and
Hendradjaya, amassed 932.1797 points and 840.2435 points in
fourth and sixth places respectively.

A mediocre performance was displayed by Bambang Trihatmodjo,
who is also director of the Indonesian Practical Shooting
Association. He languished in 31st place among 131 participants
in the Open category.

As many as 480 shooters from 32 countries are competing in
Level Four of the tournament, divided into four categories of
competition.

In the other three categories -- Revolver, Production, and
Standard -- Indonesian shooters had yet to show their edge.

Slamet Riyadi collected 1283.0734 points in the Revolver
category to stay behind pacesetter Cholatit Chonboonyadej of
Thailand, who shot 1667.5472 points.

Agus Muryono, with 1135.2331 points, Eko Widi (1047.5276
points), I Made Darma (987.0531 points) and Edi Marsey Sugijanto
(842.8232 points) ended up between fourth and seventh places.

Sudarno, Husin Hidayat, Yuneldi Lenaldo, Hengky Permana,
Suyanto, Bagus Yontaka, Abdul Rahman Saleh, and Wawi Unang were
placed between fifth and 12th in the Standard competition, led,
on top of the standings, by Anthony SY of the Philippines.

Moh. Alias Bin Zakaria of Malaysia struck early to lead the
Production category with 1290.5667 points. The closest local
opposition was offered by Hadidi and Ronaldy, who followed in
fourth and fifth places with 1040.5753 points and 1037.8636
points respectively.

Hendradjaya, who is also deputy chairman of the organizing
committee, said that the standings would be subject to
alteration, given the remaining stages of the competition.

"They have to complete 24 stages. Then we will have the
results as to who emerges as the best shooter," he said.