The troika of Deepak Dalal (545), Kamaljeet (543) and Raj Chandra (528) won the men's 50m pistol team gold medal on the concluding day of the Junior World Shooting Championship at the Peruvian capital of Lima. (More Sports News)
Indian shooting team won the yellow metal with a combined tally of 1616꧒ points beating Azerbaijan by a point. Armenia came third.
In all, India's junior shooters fin꧒ished the championship on top with a rich haul of 24 medals which included 13 gꦜold, three silver and eight bronze.
Italy finished s𓆉econd with five gold and four silver and bronze medals each while Norway was third witꦯh four gold and a total of 10 medals.
On Sunday, Mukesh Nelavalli also won an individual bronze in the event, his sixth medal of the competition, shooting a total of 548 over 60-shots. Azerbaijan's Imran Garay🃏ev won the gold with a score of 552.
In the j♔unior women's 50m pistol, Parisha Gupta won an individual silver with a score of 540. She could not getꦚ past Hungary's Miriam Jako's effort of 546, which was a junior world record.
Sejal Kamble (529), Ketan (525) and Kanishka Dagar (513) also combined to win India a team silver in th♉e event, finishing behind Azerbaijan. Divanshi, the fifth Indian in fray, shot 523 to finish eighth.
In the otᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚher event of the final day, Shardul Vihan and Sabeera Harris combined to give India a bronze in the junior mixed team trap competition, played over 75 targets each.
Shardul (71) and Sabeera's (67) shot a♏ total of 138, which was not enough to get past gold winners Czech R🏅epublic (141+8) and silver medallist Italy (141+7).
Zuhair Khan and Bhavya Tripathi, the second Indian pair in the event, shot a total of 134 to finis🌳h joint🍬 sixth.
The ISSF bandwagon will now move to New Delhi for the final stop of its 2024 calendar, the prestigiouღs season-ending ISSF World Cup Final Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun.
