Juniors clinch two gold medals, seniors disappoint at world shooting
began their campaign in the 52nd ISSF World Championship with two gold medals in the junior section but shooters representing the senior teams failed to reach the finals of their respective events here on Sunday.
The tournament assumes significance as it is the first quota event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, offering as many as 60 berths.
Arjun Singh Cheema won the individual junior men’s 50m pistol gold and then led his team, also comprising Gaurav Rana and Anmol Jain, to the team gold in the event.
Arjun shot a score of 559 to get the better of Korean Woojong Kim, who managed 554 for the silver. Gaurav tallied 551 to claim bronze. Arjun, Gaurav and Anmol Jain tallied 1659 to claim the team gold ahead of Korea, who came second with 1640.
In the mixed team 10m air rifle, the pair of Apurvi Chandela and Ravi Kumar shot 835.6 in qualifications to finish seventh. The top five teams make it to the finals and Apurvi and Ravi fell short by 0.4 points.
In the mixed team air pistol event, India’s Heena Sidhu and Shahzar Rizvi shot 768 to end 10th in qualification. The fifth and final qualification spot went to Spain with a score of 771. The second Indian pair of Manu Bhaker and Abhishek Verma shot 767 to finish in 12th position.
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LAHIRI MISSES CUT
Anirban Lahiri carded two-over 71 in the second round at the Dell Technologies Championships in the second leg of FedExCup play-offs on Saturday to miss the cut. The ace Indian golfer had carded three-over in the first round.
The poor first round had pegged him back. His driving accuracy was just over 57% on the first day and even though he did find the greens almost two-thirds of the time, he was always beyond 20 feet and very rarely inside that to get a birdie. Tiger Woods was four-under for two days to be tied 21st.
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