ISSF World Cup: Manu Bhaker-Saurabh Chaudhary clinch gold

BEIJING: India opened their medal account with a gold each and every within the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team and 10m Air Pistol Mixed team occasions on the third day of competitions at the ISSF Shooting World Cup on Thursday.

Young shooters Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary took the top spot within the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team tournament after Anjum Moudgil and Divyansh Singh Panwar opened the country's gold account within the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team tournament.


Bhaker and Chaudhary outshot Jiang Ranxin and Pang Wei of China 16-6 within the final, which was held within the new structure during which best two teams battled for the gold medal.

The Indian pair, who had qualified for the overall at the 5th spot with 482 points, gained the first six collection and dominated the overall earlier than the Chinese mixture controlled to open their account.

It was Bhaker and Chaudhary's second World Cup gold within the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team tournament. The pair had gained their first yellow metal together at the ISSF World Cup held in February in New Delhi.

Bhaker had did not qualify for the women's 10m Air Pistol individual tournament final on Wednesday.


The different Indian pair within the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team tournament, Heena Sidhu and Rizvi Shahzar failed to go into the overall after completing the qualification spherical at the 12 spot with 479 points.


Earlier within the day, Moudgil and Panwar needed to combat tooth and nail to overcome some other Chinese pair of Liu Ruxuan and Yang Haoran 17-15 within the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team final.


Moudgil and Panwar, who qualified for the overall at the 6th position with a ranking of 522.7 points, have been trailing 11-13 at one level earlier than they bounced again in taste to emerge winners.


Another Indian pair within the fray, Apurvi Chandela and Deepak Kumar had finished a place ahead of Moudgil and Panwar within the qualification spherical with 522.8 points, but couldn't dangle on to their nerves and in the end finished 6th within the final.
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