India picked up their first gold medal of the ISSF World Cup here on Saturday when Rhythm Sangwan and Ujjwal combined to defeat the Armenian pair of Elmira Karapetyan and Benik Khlghatyan 17-7 in the 10m air pistol mixed team event. (More Sports News)
Earlier Arjun Babuta and Sonam Ut🤡tam Maskar won silver in the 10m air rifle mixed team event. Indian shooters have so far won one gold and two silver medals in Cairo.
Anuradha Devi had opened the team's ac🅘count with a silver in the women's 10m air pistol on Friday✅ evening.
Rhythm, who won her second consecutive World Cup mixed team ꦆgold in Cairo, and Ujjwal finished second behind the Armenian pair in qualifying with a total score of 580. The Armenians were a point ahead.
The Indians, however, proved far too superior in the final, going🃏 up 7-1 very quickly as Benik had a horror outing.
The closest the Armenians got was when 𒈔the scores read 11-7, but Rhythm picked up in the later stages and despite low scores all around, the Indians prevailed by a big margin in the end.
In the air rifle mixed team, Arjun and Sonam had topped qualification, piping the British pair of Dean Bale💝 and Seonaid Mcintosh by a point but then went do🐼wn 3-9 at the beginning of the race to 16 points final.
It was soon 6-12, as whatever the Indians threw at th♔e British pa🦹ir, they would return in kind.
But Arjun an🌜d Sonam held ܫtheir composure as Dean showed nerves and soon it was 14-14.
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On match point, Mcintosh showed h🍰er class and hit a 10.9 and despite solid 10s from the Indians, the British pair snatched the gold.
No Indian shooter, however, was able to make the tra🐈p finals at the sꦏhotgun ranges.
Zoravar Sandhu shot 118 to finish 12th in the men's trap event as Bhowneesh Mendiratta (114) and Prithviraj Tondaiman (112) finished further down.
In women's trap, Rajeshwari💝 Kumari was 13th with a score of 110 while Manisha Keer (109) a🤡nd Bhavya Tripathi (106) finished 15th and 18th respectively.
