Thursday, August 29, 2019

Shooting News

At ISSF World Cup Rifle / Pistol 2019, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

P.C. to .issf-sports.org
10m Air Rifle Women
Gold - Elavenil Valarivan (IND) 251.7 pts
Silver - Seonaid Mcintosh (GBR) 250.6 pts
Bronze - Ying-Shin Lin (TPE) 229.9 pts
6. Anjum Moudgil (IND) 166.8 pts

P.C. to Kamesh Srinivasan FB page
10m Air Pistol Men
Gold - Abhishek Verma (IND) 244.2 pts
Silver - Ismail Keles (TUR) 243.1 pts
Bronze - Saurabh Chaudhary (IND) 221.9 pts

P.C. to Kamesh Srinivasan FB page
50m Rifle 3 Positions Men
Gold - Petar Gorsa (CRO) 462.2 pts
Silver - Sanjeev Rajput (IND) 462.0 pts
Bronze - Changhong Zhang (CHN) 449.2 pts

The first Gold at the Rio de Janeiro World Cup goes to India ... But no quota for us, as we already have a full quota of 2 in women’s air rifle ... A young Elavenil Valarivan won the 10m Air Rifle Women’s Final at the 2019 ISSF World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, this was her first senior World Cup medal ... Anjum Moudgil also was in the final, but she finished on the 6th position ... Elavenil qualified for the final on the 4th position with 629.4 pts and Anjum qualified on the 4th position with 629.1 pts ... Our current WR #1 Apurvi Chandela failed to qualify for the final, as she finished on the 11th position with 627.7 pts.

Sanjeev Rajput won a silver in the Men’s 50m Rifle 3 position in Rio and wins an Olympic quota ... He showed consistent shooting in the qualifying and in the final to win silver ... With this, he becomes the 8th Indian and 1st in this event to win Olympic quota in the shooting ... In the qualifying, he qualified on the 2nd position with 1180 pts.

In 10m Air Pistol Men event, we already have a full quota of 2 ... But again Abhishek Verma and Saurabh Chaudhary showed dominance ... Before this World Cup, Saurabh won 2 golds and Abhishek won 1 ... Abhishek won his 2nd gold medal of the year from the four World Cup ... Abhishek won a yellow medal with 244.2 pts and Saurabh struggled with his shooting but still managed to win bronze with 221.9 pts ... In the qualifying, Sourabh qualified on the 4th position with 584 pts. and Abhishek qualified on the 5th position with 582 pts.

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