Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Shooting News

At 51st ISSF World Championship - All Events, Granada, Spain


50m Pistol Men
Gold - Jongoh Jin (KOR) 192.3 pts
Silver - Jitu Rai (IND) 191.1 pts
Bronze - Wei Pang (CHN) 172.6 pts

10m Air Rifle Women
8 Ayonika Paul (IND) 80.9

Jitu Rai become the first Indian shooter to capture Olympics quota place for the 2016 Rio Olympics when he wins the silver at World championships ... Jitu continues with his recent golden run to win Silver in World championships ... In the qualifying Jitu Rai finished on 3rd position with 565 pts but his other 2 partners ended below in standing, #33 Gurpal Singh 550 pts and #38 Om Prakash 548 pts.

Ayonika Paul qualified for the final topping qualifying round scoring 420.8 pts, but unfortunately she was become first player to eliminate in the final. So she misses Olympics quota place .. Our other two shooters were way behind, #44 Kiranjit Kaur 412.5 pts and #67 Raj Chaudhary 410.3 pts.

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