Monday, September 03, 2018

Shooting News

At 52nd ISSF World Championship, Changwon, Korea

P.C. to issf-sports.org
10m Air Rifle Women Final
Gold - Hana Im (KOR) 251.1 pts.
Silver - Anjum Moudgil (IND) 248.4 pts.
Bronze - Eunhea Jung (KOR) 228 pts.
4. Apurvi Chandela (IND) 207.0 pts.

Anjum won a Silver in 10m Air Rifle, she and Apurvi helped India to grab two of the four Olympic quota places in the first tournament to the qualification path for the 2020 Olympic Games ... After we failed to grab Olympic quota in 10m Air Rifle Men, Trap Men, 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team and 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team, our these two shooters showed their metal with superb shooting skill ... Anjum and Apurvi started well in the final but Apurvi's 19th shot in 9s cost her a medal but at that time she already secured quota for India ... 17 yrs. old Im showed consistency in shooting and kept her cool for winning her first World Championship ... Anjum finished in the second ahead of experienced Korean shooter Eunhea Jung ... In the qualifying, Anjum and Apurvi finished on the 4th and 6th places respectively with scores of 628.7 pts. and 627.5 pts.

Deepak Kumar missed a quota in 10m Air Rifle Men final ... He finished on the 6th position with 164.1 pts. ... Before that, he qualified on the 4th position with 630.1 pts.

After two days we are tied for the top position with China ... As we won couple Gold in the 50m Pistol Men Junior event ... So our medals tally is 2 Gold, 3 Silver, and 1 Bronze.

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