It was day six at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun Argentina 2025 and it heralded the arrival of a new star on the international circuit as Indian teenager Suruchi stunned a world class women's 10m air pistol field to clinch gold, India's thir
India finished outside the medals in the only final of competition day five of the on-going (ISSF) World Cup Argentina 2025, as R. Narmada Nithin finished sixth and Sonam Uttam Maskar eighth in the women's 10m air rifle.
This will be the third top ISSF event to be held in the country after the senior world cup in Bhopal in 2023 and the season-ending ISSF World Cup Final earlier this year, reinforcing India's stature as one of the sport's top destinations in the world.
There are points to be picked up for medals won at this World Cup, which can help shooters confirm their Paris Olympic berths before the Shotgun squad is announced. A 15-member Rifle and Pistol squad has already been announced for the upcoming Paris Games next month
Indian Rifle and Pistol contingent competing at the ISSF World Cup in Munich, extended their sharp-shooting form from the recently concluded Olympic Selection Trials, with encouraging performances coming from quite a few of them on day one of the competitions
The Turkish duo registered an overwhelming 16-2 victory in their gold medal match at the Baku Olympic Shooting Range over Kazakhstan's Valeriya Popelova and Eldar Imankulov
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
Manini shot 415.6 in the final, which was won by Briton Seonaid McIntosh who finished with 467.0. China's double Olympic medallist Li Yuehong won the other final of the concluding day, the men's 25m rapid-fire pistol (RFP), helping his country top the medal tally with four gold, one silver a
Shahu Tushar Mane in the men's 10m Air Rifle and Shiva Narwal in the men's 10m Air Pistol are the two new names in the squad from the Bhopal World Cup. Shiva Narwal also posted a score of 585 in Bhopal while playing for ranking points, which was incidentally also the top qualifying score in
The pair of Angad Vir Singh Bajwa and Areeba Khan shot a combined 131 out of 150 to finish 16th as the best Indian pair in the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun, currently underway in Larnaca, Cyprus.
India are placed comfortably on top of the medal tally with three golds, with Hungary, Britain and Slovakia winning the other three awarded. There are four more finals coming up in the next couple of days.
Sameer had shot 573 in qualification to finish fourth and then had 10 hits to Yangpan's 12 in the ranking round to make it to the medal round. Meanwhile, teammate Udhayveer Sidhu also made it to the ranking matches but finished fourth in his one to be eliminated.