Cairo 300 m Worlds: Austria takes team silver, Switzerland bronze
Austria and Switzerland reach the men's team podium. The women's results carry no official World Championship medals.
At the Cairo World Championship on 17 October 2026, Austria took team silver in the 300 m (328.1 yd) three-position event with 1753 points. Switzerland placed third with 1751, behind Norway's winning 1760. Germany finished fourth with 1742, according to the ISSF.
Finland's Aleksi Leppa won the individual event ahead of Poland's Maciej Kowalewicz. Both scored 591 points, but Leppa had 29 inner tens to Kowalewicz's 22. Norway's Jon-Hermann Hegg placed third with 589.
In the women's event, Jeanette Hegg Duestad led with 588 ahead of Switzerland's Marta Szabo Bouza (584) and Anja Bachmann-Senti (583). The ISSF states that minimum participation requirements for an official World Championship event were not met. No official World Championship titles or medals were awarded, and these results do not count towards the medal standings.
Sources: ISSF, both reports dated 17 October 2026.
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