News India finish top of ISSF World Cup shooting medals tally

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India’s Rizvi Bags Gold, World Record in Maiden Shooting WC Outing - The Quint

Unheralded Indian shooter Shahzar Rizvi clinched the gold medal with a world record score in a memorable maiden ISSF World Cup appearance, while Jitu Rai and Mehuli Ghosh bagged a bronze each in Guadalajara, Mexico.

The Meerut-based Rizvi shot a world record 242.3 in the 10m air pistol event's final to beat reigning Olympic champion Christian Reitz of Germany, 239.7, to win the top prize.

Pistol ace Rai won the bronze in the event with a score of 219, as three Indians made it to the finals of the season's first World Cup. Om Prakash Mitharval, the other Indian shooter in the event, finished at creditable fourth position with a score of 198.4 points.

Mehuli, also a senior World Cup debutant, added to India's medal tally as she shot a world junior record 228.4 to win bronze in the women's 10m air rifle event.

Gold medalist Shahzar Rizvi of India after winning the 10m Air Pistol Men Final at the CODE Paradero Shooting Range during Day 1 of the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun on March 3, 2018 in Guadalajara, Mexico.(Photo: ISSF)

Three Medals on Opening Day
In this women's event too, three Indian shooters progressed to the final. Anjum Moudgil finished at fourth position with 208.6 points, while Apurvi Chandela was seventh in the standings with 144.1 points.

India had a fruitful opening day in the competition as they won three medals - a gold and two bronze. Shahzar finished second in the qualifying, behind Reitz, shooting 579 to the German's 588 after 60-shots.

Rai was one behind Shahzar with 578, while Om Prakash shot 576 to qualify in fourth place.

While Jitu and Om Prakash maintained their positions at the end of the finals, Shahzar turned the tables on Reitz in style, staying ahead of the classy German throughout the length of the 24-shot final.

In the women's 10m air rifle final, Mehuli and Anjum were in medal contention from the beginning, and after a sea-saw battle between the two a 9.9 on the 17th shot meant Anjum ended in fourth position with a score of 208.6.

Mehuli won bronze while China's Hong Xu won silver with 251.0.

Romania's Laura Georgeta Coman, who won gold in the Munich World Cup last year and a silver at the World Cup Finals, came up with a classy display, leading throughout to win the gold medal with 251.5.

 

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India finish top of ISSF World Cup shooting medals tally

Stellar show from young guns Shahzar Rizvi, Manu Bhaker, Akhil Sheoran, Om Prakash Mitharval, Anjum Moudgil and Mehuli Ghosh ensured Indian finished the ISSF World Cup shooting in Guadalajara, Mexico, with four gold, one silver and four bronze medals.

Manu Bhaker, who won two gold medals at the ISSF World Cup shooting in Guadalajara, Mexico.(HT Photo)

India topped the medals tally for the very first time in an International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) competition, after finishing the World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun stage here with four gold, one silver and four bronze for a total of nine medals.

In the concluding event of the World Cup on Sunday, the three Indians in the Men’s Skeet competition, however failed to reach the podium with Smit Singh shooting 116 in qualifying to finish at the 15th spot, Angad Bajwa shot 115 to end in 18th while Sheeraz Sheikh secured the 30th spot with a score of 112.

Two time Olympic Champion Vincent Hancock of the US won the Men’s Skeet competition. Hancock, who had won gold in Men’s Skeet at the Beijing and London Olympics, had gone into a bit of a slump after winning the 2015 World Championships and completed a comeback of sorts into the winner’s circle with this win here.

He did it in style by first topping qualification with a sublime 123 out of 125 and then followed it up in the final, with a world record equalling 59 out of 60. He was however matched by Paul Adams of Australia and finally got the better of him 6-5 in a shoot-off for gold and silver.

Italy’s Tammaro Cassandro settled for the bronze with 49 hits in the final.

India’s Smit was placed seventh at the start of the day and stood a chance of qualifying but rounds of 22,23 and 23 ended all hopes. Bajwa was the best Indian shooter of the day returning rounds of 24, 25 and 24 but he had dropped too far behind on day one of qualifying and Sheikh did not look in his element in this competition.

The Indian contingent will however leave Guadalajara a happy lot as for the first time in the history of the sport, they have emerged triumphant in a global event and had become the talk of the competition thanks mainly to the exploits of young guns like Shahzar Rizvi, Manu Bhaker, Akhil Sheoran, Om Prakash Mitharval, Anjum Moudgil and Mehuli Ghosh apart from facile performances from senior stars like Jitu Rai, Ravi Kumar and even Sanjeev Rajput, for that matter who did not win a medal but shot very well to just miss out and finish fourth.

 

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PM Modi praises young Indian shooters for ISSF Junior World Cup performance

TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Apr 1, 2018, 20:42 IST

HIGHLIGHTS

• PM Modi took to Twitter to congratulate the young Indian shooters who finished second overall at the ISSF Junior World Cup
• India won 22 medals, which included nine gold, five silver and eight bronze, to finish behind China in the medal tally

L-R: Manu Bhaker and Elavenil Valarivan

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took to Twitter to congratulate the young Indian shooters who finished second overall at the recently concluded ISSF Junior World Cup in Sydney, Australia. India won 22 medals, which included nine gold, five silver and eight bronze, to finish second behind China, who won 25 medals, in the medal tally.

In a series of tweets, the PM praised the achievements of the young shooters who have brought laurels and made every Indian proud.

"In the recently held #ISSFJWC, our young shooters have brought home several laurels and made every Indian very proud. Congratulations to the Indian team that took part and achieved remarkable success in the tournament in Sydney. @ISSF_Shooting," PM Modi tweeted.

Modi then congratulated each of the nine shooters - Arjun Babuta, Elavenil Valarivan, Vivaan Kapoor, Manu Bhaker, Gaurav Rana, Anmol Jain, Anish Bhanwala (who was Emerging Player of the Year at TOISA 2018), Muskan Bhanwala and Ganemat Sekhon - individually.

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Modi concluded by saying that the performance in Sydney will motivate many more youngsters to play more and excel.

"The stupendous performance of our shooters will strengthen the #FitIndia movement and many more youngsters will feel motivated to play more and excel. Once again, I congratulate the entire shooting team that participated in the #ISSFJWC. @ISSF_Shooting," concluded Modi.

Earlier, India's senior shooters had their best-ever campaign at the ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico, as they won four gold, one silver and four bronze. India topped the medal tally for the first time in an ISSF competition.

 

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Shahzar Rizvi ranked World No. 1 in ISSF World rankings

India’s 10m air pistol shooter Shahzar Rizvi on Tuesday grabbed the No. 1 spot in ISSF World rankings, riding on his silver medal-winning performance in the World Cup in Changwon, Korea.

With 1654 rating points, Rizvi shot to the top ahead of Russia’s Artem Chernousov (1046) and Japan’s Tomoyuki Matsuda (803). Besides silver in Changwon, Rizvi had won a gold medal with a World record score at the World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico in March.

Other top-10 rankings: Men: 10m air pistol: Jitu Rai 6th; 10m air rifle rankings: Ravi Kumar 4th, Deepak Kumar 9th.

50m rifle 3-positions: Akhil Sheoran 4th, Sanjeev Rajput 8th.

Women: 10m air pistol: Manu Bhaker 4th; 10m air rifle: Mehuli Ghosh 7th. 50m rifle 3-positions: Anjum 8th.

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