Lucimar celebrates the title of World Champion Super Senior
Less than a month after the last interview given to the Guga Ribas Company, we contacted Lucimar Domingues again for even better reasons. The shooter brought home fromGreece not only the titles of world Shoot-off champion and world Senior Standard vice-champion but also the first Brazilian trophy as IPSC world champion (individual).
He readily accepted our invitation, as usual very politely and charmingly. The first question immediately triggered his inevitable emotion. The shooter says it’s impossible for him to explain how he felt with he heard the Brazilian national anthem at the top of the World Shoot podium. “Only God and I know all the setbacks I went through to win this title. I shot with a cracked gun”, Lucimar explains.
How does it feel to be the first Brazilian IPSC world champion?
I’m still thrilled about it. A scene comes into my mind all the time of the moment when I was on the podium thanking God and with the national anthem playing. It is indescribably thrilling! I get goose bumps just talking about it!
God and I alone know all the setbacks I went through to win this title. I shot with a cracked gun and had no support. I had to choose whether to pay for my own training, buy inputs for the ammo and pay the trip to Greece or buy a new gun. I only have this gun and no reserve. I ran the risk of my equipment breaking in the middle of the shoot. My winning is all the more gratifying for these reasons.
How was your performance during the competition?
This was my fourth IPSC World Shoot and I found it the toughest. In my opinion, the stages were well prepared. I inspected them during the pre-matching and immediately noticed how complex the competition was going to be. There were a lot of distant targets and others of metal. And on several occasions I had to accelerate and then slow down right afterward.
There were also many hidden targets and only three minutes for all shooters on the stand to walk through it.
Lucimar Domingues on the Standard Senior podium
What was the biggest problem in this shoot?
In addition to the complexity of the competition, on the third day I woke up with my right thumb very swollen. That day I competed in the morning so I took an anti-inflammatory that a colleague (Igor Zander) gave me and went off to the stand. I talked to the Range Master and tried to bring my free day forward, which would be on Friday, but he explained that he couldn’t guarantee my place in another squad.
So I decided to shoot but had to rely on the cooperation of my squad members and asked to be the last to shoot in the stages that day. I was able to wait a little more for the effect of the medicine. I was in such pain. That was a very hard day!
How did the Standard Senior squad perform?
In fact, we were very sorry to have lost the champion team title. I think we came second because of the complexity of the competition and psychological pressure from some adversaries.
Everyone is nervous in a world shoot.
How did the Brazilian delegation perform?
Every Brazilian athlete that managed to participate in the event is a winner!
On the other hand, I think the Brazilian athletes are not used to the level of difficulty of this kind of competition.
I’d like to take the opportunity of this interview to ask the Brazilian organizers for more elaborate level III matches. Our competitions need to have a higher degree of difficulty, as in the international competitions.
What’s your new goal?
Not to let my performance drop.
Practical Shooting is an extremely technical and demanding sport, which is why I need to continue to test my limits.