Indian skeet shooters begin World Cup campaign in Tangier
The Indian skeet shooting team will begin its campaign at the ISSF Shotgun World Cup Tangier 2026 on Friday at the Club Tangérois de Tir.
The Indian skeet shooting team will begin its campaign at the ISSF Shotgun World Cup Tangier 2026 on Friday at the Club Tangérois de Tir.
Parampal held his nerve in a tense shoot-off to edge past Olympian Anantjeet Singh Naruka in the men’s final. Both shooters finished level on 34 hits out of 36 in the new ISSF skeet finals format.
After the completion of the Precision stage on Thursday, Esha stood fourth while Manu was placed seventh among the lineup of 85 shooters.
India’s top pistol shooters Manu Bhaker and Esha Singh endured heartbreak in the women’s 10m air pistol final at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championship Rifle/Pistol in Cairo on Monday, both missing out on individual medals after promising starts.
Olympian Anish Bhanwala survived a total of four shoot-offs to clinch silver, his first senior individual world championship medal on competition day two of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championship Rifle/Pistol in Cairo.
Veteran Indian trap shooter Zoravar Singh Sandhu shot 73 (24, 25, 24) after three qualifying rounds, as Trap competitions in the year’s fourth and final International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun, got underway at the Tiro A Volo Trap Concaverde in Lonato, Italy, on Friday.
Taking aim on the concluding day of the Munich World Cup on Saturday (Jun 14, 2025) morning, Arjun (317.7) and Arya (317.5) shot a combined 635.2 to finish second behind Sheng and Wang, who topped the 58-team field with a world record (also junior) score of 635.9.
The teenager shot 241.9 in the eight-woman final, to leave France’s Paris Olympic silver medalist Camille Jedrzejewski 0.2 behind in silver. Yao Qianxuan of China won bronze.
Chain too maintained his excellent form this year, returning a 592 in qualification to qualify sixth in a top field. It was his second individual World Cup Final this year, after having won bronze in Buenos Aires.
The global royalty of Rifle/Pistol sport shooting, is set to descend on one of its most hallowed turfs Munich’s Olympic Shooting range for the third International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup (Rifle/Pistol) stage, set for June 10-15.
