India’s youth brigade dominated the day before the men’s and women’s skeet teams brought more cheer today at the ISSF Shooting World Cup in New Delhi.
India won the mixed team gold medals in both the 10m air pistol and 10m air rifle events to continue their stupendous run of form.
The sensational duo of Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker notched up the 10m air pistol mixed team gold medal as the host country consolidated its top position in the overall tally.
This was after Divyansh Singh Panwar and Elavenil Valarivan produced some excellent shooting to comfortably claim the gold medal in the 10m mixed air rifle event.
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The 18-year-old Chaudhary and the 19-year-old Bhaker defeated Golnoush Sebhatollahi and Javed Foroughi of Iran 16-12, making a brilliant rally after trailing 0-4 at the end of the second series to give India their fifth gold at the ongoing event.
This was the pair's fifth World Cup mixed team gold medal.
Also, for India, Yashaswini Singh Deswal and Abhishek Verma bagged the bronze medal in the same event after getting the better of Turkey's Sevval Ilayda Tarhan and Ismail Keles 17-13 at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range.
Earlier this morning, 21-year-old Elavenil and 18-year-old Divyansh had combined to claim the 10m air rifle mixed team gold. This was Elavenil's first at the senior level, while fourth for Divyansh at the senior World Cups.
The other Indian pair in the event, Anjum Moudgil and Arjun Babuta, could not make the final after finishing fifth in the qualifying with a total score of 418.1.
Later in the day, India won the gold medal in men's skeet team event while the women settled for silver.
The Indian team of Gurjoat Khangura, Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa beat Qatar's Nasser Al-Attiya, Ali Ahmed A O Al-Ishaq and Rashid Hamad 6-2 on the shotgun range of the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range.
In the women's final, India's Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Karttiki Singh Shaktawat and Ganemat Sekhon won the silver medal after losing to Kazakhstan's Rinata Nassyrova, Olga Panarina and Zoya Kravchenko 4-6 in the final.
(With PTI inputs)
