Esha shoots second gold at WC
New Delhi, May 13: India picked up four more gold at the ongoing International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany, winning both the Women’s and Men’s Air Rifle and Air Pistol Team events on Friday, the fourth day of competitions.
That took India’s total haul of medals from the premiere World Junior Shooting competition to 14 medals including eight gold and six silver medals till date. Australia, France, Poland and Bulgaria have distributed the other four gold medals on offer between them till now as India continue to dominate the Rifle and Pistol disciplines.
India’s gold rush on Friday began with the Men’s 10M Air Rifle trio of Rudrankksh Patil, Paarth Makhija and Umamahesh Maddineni beat the Spanish trio of Jesus Oviedo, Adrian Diaz and
Jorge Estevez 16-8 in the gold medal match. It was a second individual gold in the competition for both Rudrankksh and Paarth who had won the individual Men’s 10M Air Rifle and the Mixed Team Rifle
competitions earlier respectively.
It was then the turn of the Junior Women’s 10M Air Pistol team of Manu Bhaker, Palak and Esha Singh who outplayed Georgians Salome
Prodiashvili, Mariam Abramishvili and Mariami Prodiashvili by the same 16-8 margin.
It was the second gold for Hyderabad’s Esha, who had won the 10 metre Air Pistol Mixed Team event alongside Saurabh Chaudhary on Thursday.
Then the Air Rifle Women’s Team consisting of Arya Borse, Zeena Khitta and Ramita downed the Korean trio of Yeeun AN, Eunji Kwon and Jeongin Jang 17-9 in the title decider to give India her third gold of the day.
Finally, it was the Junior Men’s Air Pistol team of Saurabh Chaudhary, Shiva Narwal and Sarabjot Singh who beat Uzbekistan’s Mukhammad Kamalov, Veniamin Nikitin and Umidbek Komolbekov 17-9 for India’s fourth gold of the day. India have also reached the gold medal round of the Junior Men’s and Women’s Trap team events.