India bags back to back medals in the ISSF World Cup

The ISSF Shooting World Cup: India won gold medals in the 10m air pistol and 10m air rifle mixed events on the strength of its superb performance on Monday.  Saurabh Chaudhary-Manu Bhaker won the air pistol and Elavenil Valarivan and Divyansh Panwar won the air rifle gold.  India topped the table with five gold medals.
Saurabh and Manu defeated Iran’s Golnoush Sebghatollahi and Javad Foroughi 16-12. They returned and gave India its fifth gold medal.  Both were second in the qualifying round with 384 points.  Yashaswini Singh Deswal and Abhishek Verma won the bronze by defeating Turkey’s Sevval Ilayda Tarhan and Ismail Keles by 17-13.  On the other hand, Gurjoat Khangura, Mairaj Khan, and Angad Bajwa helped the Indian team win gold in the skeet event. Among the women, Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Karttiki Singh Shaktawat, and Ganemat Sekhon had to finalize the silver medals.
Elavenil Valarivan and Divyansh Panwar won gold in the 10m air rifle mixed event.  He scored 16 points in the final to beat Hungary’s world number one pair of István Péni and Eszter Denes.  The losing pair managed to score only ten points.  The Indian pair scored 10.4 points in the final shot while the rival pair scored 10.7 and 9.9 points respectively.
Elavenil-Divyansh scored 211.2 and 210.1 in the second qualifying round respectively.  With a total of 421.3 points, the Indian pair was at the top.  Anjum Moudgil and Arjun Babuta, who were in the same event, could not participate in the main event as they finished fifth in the qualifying round.  This is Divyansh’s second medal in the competition. He had won bronze in the individual event on the first day.  Elavenil, however, was eliminated in the individual event.
National coach Mansher Singh believes that shotgun shooting in India has a bright future on the strength of young players. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore introduced shooting in India by winning the double trap at the 2004 Athens Olympics.Attachments area