Indian shooters continued their impressive show at the ISSF Junior World Cup with Rushiraj Barot striking gold in the junior men’s 25m rapid fire pistol event on Day Three of the competition in Gabala
Indian shooters continued their impressive show at the ISSF Junior World Cup with Rushiraj Barot striking gold in the junior men’s 25m rapid fire pistol event on Day Three of the competition in Gabala, Azerbaijan, on Wednesday.
The 19-year old, who qualified for the six-man final in fifth position with a score of 556, edged out Lukas Skoumal of the Czech Republic 25-23 to record his first triumph at the junior World Cup stage.
Sergei Evglevski of Australia took the bronze. India picked up four more medals on the day, including another gold, to sit firmly in second place on the medal table with six gold, four silver and eight bronze for a total haul of of 18 medals so far.
Russia were on top of the medal table with 10 gold for a total of 21 medals.
Earlier in the day, Pratik Borse, Arjun Babuta and Prashant won the team gold in the 10m air rifle event with a combined score of 1849.9.
Singapore won silver logging a total of 1847 while Japan took the bronze with a total of 1846.8.
Both Arjun and Pratik also qualified for the individual finals where Babuta claimed the bronze.
Rising Czech talent Filip Nepejchal picked the gold with his last shot, ahead of Japan’s Atsushi Shimada.
In the junior men’s 50m pistol, Anmol notched up another medal when he teamed up with Nishant Bhardwaj and Arjun Das to win the team silver medal. Their combined score of 1600 was behind team Russia’s gold medal score of 1640.
Jitu, Sanjeev, Mairaj make Cup Finals Meanwhile, ace shooters Jitu Rai, Sanjeev Rajput and Mairaj Ahmad Khan will represent India at the season ending ISSF World Cup finals in Italy next month.
The rifle and pistol events will be held in Bologna from October 4 to 10 while the shotgun event is scheduled in Rome from October 10 to 16.
Rai will participate in two events — the men’s 10m and 50m pistol, while experienced Rajput will start in the men’s 50m rifle three positions competition. Mairaj will take part in the men’s skeet.
