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ISSF Shooting World Cup: Anjum Moudgil Clinches Silver In Baku; India Move To Third Spot

Anjum Moudgil went down 12-16 in ☂the Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions gold medal match to Denmark’s Rikke Maeng Ibsen.

Anjum Moudgil is a multiple ISSF World Championships meda🐼llist in 10m air rifle events.
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Experienced Indian shooter Anjum Moudgil clinched a silver in the Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions as India moved up to third spot in the medal tally at the ISSF World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Friday. (More Sports News)

Anjum went down 12-16 in t🍰he gold medal match to Denmark’s Rikke Maeng Ibsen. 

Anjum, also a world championship silver medallist, had on Thursday 🅰qualified for the top-eight ranking round with a score♐ of 587 out of 600, which gave her a fourth place in a field of 60 shooters

On Friday, ꦆshe finished second to Ibsen in stage🌟 two with a 406.5 to the Norwegian's 411.4. She then put up a strong challenge in the final but could not put it across the Dane. 

I﷽🍰t is Anjum's second individual World Cup silver in the event.

The Men's 3P trio of Swapnil, Deepak Kumar and Goldie Gurjar also won a silver in the te෴am competition.

The trio came through two rounds of qualifying to make it to the gold medal match which they lost 7-17 to Croat⛄ia. Ukraine picked up the bronze. 

Swapnil Kus🦋ale had also finished second in the corresponding Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions on Thursday.

Indian now have one gold and three silv⛎er medals in the tournament and stand in third place behind Kor🥂ea and Serbia.

There was heartbreak for🦩 the other two Indian women in the fray as Ayushi Podder finished 16th with a score of 585, just one point away from the final top-eight mar🦄k and Ashi Chouksey ended 20th with a score of 584.

The women's 3P team comprising Aജnjum and Ayushi won their first qualifying round with an aggregate of 1316 to make it to stage two. However, they could not get into the reckoning for a medal, finishing sixth in the ranking round with a score of 867, falling short of the medal rounds by a point.

India fielded a 12-m♑ember Rifle squad in the Baku World Cup.