Highlights
- Earlier within the day, the trio of Anjum Moudgil, Ashi Chouksey, and Sift Kaur Samra received bronze.
- Within the rating spherical, Khan was up towards German Sven Korte, Korean Minki Cho and Cypriot Nicolas.
Mairaj Khan scripted historical past by profitable India’s first-ever World Cup gold in Males’s Skeet on Monday. The veteran Indian shooter shot 37 to complete forward of Korea’s Minsu Kim (36) and Britain’s Ben Llewellin (26), who received the silver and bronze respectively. Khan shot 119/125 over two days of qualifying earlier than coming by way of in a five-way shoot-off en path to his maiden particular person gold.
The 2-time Olympian, who’s the oldest member of the Indian contingent in Changwon this 12 months, had received a silver on the 2016 World Cup in Rio de Janeiro. Earlier within the day, the trio of Anjum Moudgil, Ashi Chouksey, and Sift Kaur Samra received bronze within the ladies’s 50m rifle 3P crew occasion.
The Indians outplayed the Austrian crew of Sheileen Waibel, Nadine Ungerank, and Rebecca Koeck 16-6 within the bronze medal match to comfortably safe a podium end.
However the day undoubtedly belonged to Khan. After ending with 119, he discovered himself vying for 2 closing qualification spots together with 4 others, together with two-time Olympic medallist Abdullah Al Rashidi of Kuwait. When Shotaro Toguchi of Japan missed his eighth shoot-off shot, he was assured of a top-eight spot.
Within the rating spherical, he was up towards German Sven Korte, Korean Minki Cho and Cypriot Nicolas for one more spherical of 30 targets. He topped the spherical with 27 hits as Sven adopted him to the medal spherical with 25 hits.
In different outcomes, Vijayveer Sidhu made the rating spherical however did not advance to the medal rounds whereas Anish and Sameer couldn’t cross the primary hurdle within the males’s 25m fast fireplace pistol. Vijayveer shot 584 in qualifying to complete sixth whereas Anish shot 582 for the twelfth spot and Sameer 566 for the thirtieth place.
Mufaddal Deesawala completed twenty third within the ladies’s skeet taking pictures a complete of 108. As of now, India sits on the high of the medal tally with 5 gold medals, as many silvers, and three bronze.
(Inputs PTI)