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.
The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) has announced that the national selection trials 2 and 3 for Shotgun events (Trap and Skeet), will be conducted in New Delhi and Bhopal, from May 21 and June 1, respectively.
Abhay Singh Sekhon, the youngest member of the Indian men’s skeet shooting trio at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun in Nicosia, Cyprus, raised hopes of a final entry, ending day two of qualifications in fifth place and a tally of 98 after four rounds.
At least three people were killed and two others injured in a shooting in Palermo, the capital of Italy's Sicily
She was in-fact the star of Saturday at the Karni Singh range, coming back later to take the silver in the junior women’s event and a second gold in the youth women’s competition.
In a veiled attack on the BJP-led government at the Centre for the law and order situation in the national capital, former chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal said on Thursday that criminals no longer fear the law.
The accused, identified as Abhishek Kumar alias Harshu and Vikrant alias Vicky, were apprehended with two sophisticated pistols and 22 live rounds in their possession.
The shooting incidents in Belghoria and Bongaon have caused a great deal of sensation. In Bongaon, a businessman was critically injured in the shooting.
