India finished with two medals at the ISSF World Cup 2024 in Munich, Germany after shooter Sift Kaur Samra won the bronze in the women's 50m rifle 3 positions shooting event on Friday.
The top two shooters in the women's and men's 50M Rifle 3 Positions (3P) events of the ongoing Olympic Selection Trials (OST) 3 and 4 Rifle/Pistol, were identified here on Friday at the MP State Shooting Academy ranges after the conclusion of their respective OST T4 qualification rounds
A total of 16 matches across the eight Olympic rifle and pistol individual events will be held over a nine-day detail, concluding with the men's and women's 10m air rifle T4 finals on Sunday, May 19
His sensational tally of 254.0 in the OST T1 final, was 0.3 above the mark set by fellow finalist and India teammate Divyansh Singh Panwar, at the Cairo World Cup earlier this year.
Olympian Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar of Guru Nanak Dev University clinched the men's 10m Air Rifle gold with a dominating performance that saw him lead from the first shot in the 4th Khelo India University Games, Ashtalakshmi, at the Kahilipara Shooting Range here.
Shooters Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Manu Bhaker will lead the Indian contingent at the ISSF World Cup 2024 in Granada, Spain starting from Sunday.
Akhil Sheoran won the gold medal in the final with a score of 460.2, while Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar finished second with 459.0 in the men's 50m rifle event. Thai shooter Thongphaphum Vongsukdee won bronze with a score of 448.8.
Ganemat Sekhon finished second at the end of day one of the qualifications in the women's skeet, raising hopes yet again, even as Hriday Hazarika and Elavenil Valarivan in the men's and women's air rifle registered two more seventh-place finishes after reaching the top eights, emulating Divy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the stellar performance of Indian shooters at the recently concluded 15th Asian Shooting Championship in Changwon, Korea. India won a total of 55 medals to finish behind China