ndian shooter Rhythm Sangwan managed to break a 29-year-old world record in the women's 25m pistol event at the ongoing ISSF World Cup 2023 for rifle and pistol shooters in Baku, Azerbaijan on Saturday.
Rhythm Sangwan finished third in the final with a score of 219.1, behind Olympic champion Anna Korakaki of Greece and gold medalist Olena Kostevych of Ukraine from the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. It was Rhythm Sangwan's first individual senior medal at the World Cup of Shooting.
The 22-member Indian squad have their full quota of three medal contenders in each event who will look to impress ahead of what will be the squad's last international assignment before the crucial world championships in August
Prithviraj Tondaiman, who won his first-ever individual medal at the Doha World Cup earlier in the year, shot a perfect 25 in the fifth and final qualification round on Thursday to total 119 after five rounds. That took him to a four-way shoot-off for three remaining top eight spots, but he
Paris 2024 Olympics quota winner Bhowneesh Mendiratta was best placed with a four-round score of 94, giving him the 11th spot currently among medal contenders. His senior mate Prithviraj Tondaiman was at 13th spot with the same score, while Rajeshwari in the women's trap, shot 88 over two da
Mairaj Khan, who won his fifth senior ISSF medal on the day, was in brilliant form in the 30-team qualification round shooting 74/75 to help the Indian duo shoot a combined 143 out of 150. That helped them reach the title decider in the top position after they won a shoot-off with the Mexica
Four-time Olympian Manavjit Singh Sandhu, drew on all his experience to win the men's trap competition in the T3 Shotgun National Selection Trials. India's most recent ISSF World Cup gold medal winner Sarabjot Singh of Haryana, clinched the men's 10m air pistol T4 trial. At the same time, st
Divyansh Singh Panwar was in sensational shooting form in Bhopal, logging a score of 636.3 in the men's 10m air rifle T4 qualification round. Punjab's Sift Kaur Samra, who won her first-ever ISSF medal. In the men's 25m rapid fire pistol (rfp), India international Vijayveer Sidhu won 30 poin