Greek athlete wins men’s skeet title at ISSF World Shooting Championships 

Greece's Efthimios Mitas claimed the men's skeet title at the 2023 ISSF World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, Report informs.

The 38-year-old two-time Olympian hit 56 out of 60 targets to edge out Finland's recent European Games bronze medallist Eetu Kallioinen in a nail-biting final with Egypt's Azmy Mehelba collecting the bronze.

Three-time Olympic and five-time individual world champion Vincent Hancock finished fourth ahead of Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Jesper Hansen and Norway's Erik Watndal.

With Hancock and Mehelba having previously secured Paris 2024 Olympic Games shooting quotas for their National Olympic Committees (NOCs), the other athletes in the final were guaranteed the four spots at stake in this competition. Those quotas went to Greece, Finland, Denmark, and Norway.

In the team competition, the USA ranked first, Greece second, and Italy third.