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.
Two 16-year-old women Indian rifle shooters, Shambhavi Kshirsagar and Ojasvi Thakur, went hammer and tongs at each other to the delight of the packed final hall en route to a stunning 1-2 in the women’s 10m air rifle final in the ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany on Saturday evening.
Olympian Raiza Dhillon delivered under challenging and tricky conditions to win a silver medal in the women’s skeet event at the ongoing International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany
Earlier, India had two shooters qualify for the junior women’s air pistol final with Prachi qualifying a spot behind Kanak in fifth as the two shot scores of 571 and 572 respectively.
The 20-year-old junior 3P national champion shot 626.7 after 60 shots, narrowly missing out on gold—won by Sweden’s Jesper Johansson—by just 0.3 points. Griffin Lake of the USA claimed the bronze with a score of 624.6.
The first batch of 40 Indian shooters and support staff will embark on the blue-riband event of the junior international shooting sport calendar, the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup (Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun) in Suhl, Germany, on Saturday.
