Indian taking pictures ace Saurabh Chaudhary won the gold medal within the lads’s 10m air pistol match, opening the nation’s account within the year’s first ISSF World Cup in Cairo on Tuesday.
Saurabh Chaudhary wins 10m air pistol gold at ISSF World Cup (AP Picture)
HIGHLIGHTS
- Saurabh Chaudhary won the gold medal within the lads’s 10m air pistol match
- Saurabh Chaudhary beat German’s Micheal Schwald within the gold medal match
- The bronze within the match used to be bagged by Artem Chernousov of Russia
India ace shooter Saurabh Chaudhary beat German’s Micheal Schwald within the gold medal match of the 10m air pistol match to preserve India’s first medal on the ISSF World Cup in Cairo.
The bronze within the match used to be bagged by Artem Chernousov of Russia, whose nation’s flag used to be removed owing to its involvement within the continuing conflict in Ukraine.
The 19-year extinct Saurabh, an Olympian who additionally has a Childhood Olympic gold medal to his name, used to be third within the lads’s 10m air pistol qualification stage with a total of 584 beneficial properties, making it through to the elimination as with out a doubt one of many cease eight shooters.
He topped the closing stage relay 1 with a ranking of 38, making it through to the medal match, which used to be contested by the remaining four shooters. There he again topped with a ranking of 42.5.
Esha Singh, Shri Nivetha and Ruchita Vinerkar are representing India within the 10m air pistol girls folks’s match.
Over 500 shooters from 60 countries are taking portion within the Cairo World Cup, which has 20 medal sets on offer.
