ISSF World Cup: India bags three more gold, total medal tally goes to 14

New Delhi, Mar 23: Making India proud, the Indian contingent three more gold medals on Monday at the ongoing International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup. India is now leading at the top of the medal tally with six gold, four silver, and four bronze.

 

The hosts won five medals in all on Monday to take their tally to 14. They began competition day four by winning the 10M Air Rifle Mixed Team event, followed by the 10M Air Pistol Mixed Team competition, before the Skeet Men's team struck gold in the last final of the day. India also won Silver in the Women's Skeet Team competition as well as a bronze in the 10M Air Pistol Mixed Team event.

 

 

As reported earlier, the first gold medal came when India's former world number one pairing of Elavenil Valarivan and Divyansh Singh Panwar won against Hungary's Champion Rifle shooter Istvan Peni and Denes Eszter.

 

 

Later, in the day's second final, though India's young pistol aces Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary started slow, found their rhythm to put it across Iran's Golnoush Sebghatollahi and Javad Foroughi 16-12, in the 10M Air Pistol Mixed Team competition. The bronze medal in the event also went to India, when Yashaswini Deswal and Abhishek Verma who beat the Turkish pair of Sevval Tarhan and Ismail Keles 17-13 in the Bronze Medal match.

 

 

India's third gold of the day came in the last of the four finals when the Men's Skeet Team comprising of Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, and Gurjoat Khangura beat a top-notch Qatar squad 6-2 in the Gold Medal match. The silver-winning Qatar team had Nasser Al-Attiya (Olympic bronze medallist), Rashid Hamad, who won the Men's Skeet bronze at the Cairo Shotgun World Cup last month, and Ali Ahmed Al-Ishaq, currently ranked 45 in the world.