This is Gurpreet’s second individual medal in World Championships, the first one also a silver won back in 2018 at Changwon in the 25m Standard Pistol event. Yann Pierre Louis Fridrici of France won the bronze.
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Olympian Gurpreet Singh came agonisingly close to becoming the world champion in the 25m Centre Fire Pistol event, losing out the gold medal on inner 10’s to Ukraine’s Pavlo Korostylov at the Olympic Shooting Range in Cairo.
This is Gurpreet’s second individual medal in World Championships, the first one also a silver won back in 2018 at Changwon in the 25m Standard Pistol event. Yann Pierre Louis Fridrici of France won the bronze.
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Gurpreet shot a total of 584-18x over two days of competition in the precision and rapid stages while Korostylov shot 29 inner 10’s and a perfect score of 100 in the final rapid round to edge away with the gold medal.
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The Indian, placed ninth after the precision stage with a score of 288-8x (95,97,96) came back on the second day to shoot a brilliant score of 296-10x (98,99,99) in the rapid stage to clinch the silver medal. The Ukrainian who was leading after the precision stage with a score of 291-14x, shot 293-15x in the rapid stage to level Gurpreet’s score and win the gold.
Harpreet Singh, who was in contention for a medal after the precision stage with a score of 291-10x which placed him in second, could only manage 286-6x in the rapid stage which saw him eventually finish in ninth place.
The other Indian shooter in the fray, Sahil Choudhary finished in 28th place with a total score of 561-14x (Precision – 272-4x, Rapid – 289 – 10x). The three shooters also finished outside the team medal places, finishing in fifth.
India ended their World Championship campaign in third place with a total of 13 medals, three gold, six silver and four bronze behind China who mustered 12 gold, seven silver and two bronze and South Korea who secured seven gold, three silver and four bronze medals.
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