Esha Singh clinched gold in the women’s 25m pistol at the ISSF World Cup in Munich with a record-breaking score of 43, setting both a world and junior world record in a commanding final performance.
Almost all of India’s top guns will be competing in 10 events, which include all eight Olympic events plus the rifle prone competitions for men and women.
Simranpreet, 21, shot 41/50 in the final, matching the junior world record set by the Republic of Korea's Paris 2024 Olympic champion Yang Ji-in, who finished fourth in Doha.
In men’s 10m air rifle, former world No. 1 Divyansh Singh Panwar shot 630.0 in qualification to finish 19th, narrowly missing out on the top-eight cut where Sweden’s Olympic silver medallist Victor Lindgren claimed the final spot with 632.3.
Fresh off her bronze medal in the 50m rifle 3 positions event at the ISSF World Cup in Munich, India’s rising shooter Sift Kaur Samra believes the soon-to-be-launched Shooting League of India (SLI) has the potential to revolutionise the sport—much like the Indian Premier League did for cricket.
19-year-old Nischal gave India its second medal when she won the silver in women’s 50m rifle 3 positions on the final day of the tournament.
Ganemat Sekhon won silver, while Darshna Rathore won bronze, as India for the first time won two senior individual medals in women's skeet at an International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup stage.
India added two more medals to their tally on Day-2 of the ongoing ISSF World Cup after Rhythm Sangwan and Varun Tomar won 10m Air Pistol mixed team silver and Narmada Nithin & Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil took bronze in Air Rifle mixed team event, here on Thursday.
On the final day on Wednesday, the Indian trio of Anish Bhanwala, Vijayveer Sidhu and Sameer won silver in the Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (RFP) Team event, going down to the Czech Republic 15-17 in a nerve-wracking final at the Changwon International Shooting range.
Anish, Vijayveer and Sameer will be in contention in the RFP Team event on Wednesday after having shot well on day nine to rank second in the first stage of qualifying.
