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In an eight-shooter final featuring pedigreed competitors, 19-year-old Suruchi Phogat clinched her first ISSF World Cup gold medal in women’s 10m Air Pistol at Buenos Aires, Argentina on Tuesday.The field included three Chinese shooters – including Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist and mixed team gold medallist Jiang Ranxin – and Korean Choo Gaeun, the Haryana shooter emerged champion by a margin of 2.7 points over Chinese Qian Wei in the gold medal elimination round. “I didn’t know about Ranxin being an Olympic medallist. Whenever I shoot, my competition is with myself and to execute what I did in training,” Phogat told The Indian Express. Story continues below this ad It turned out to be a day of double delight for India as Vijayveer Sidhu won his second ISSF World Cup med...

Nine months after failing to make the Indian shooting team for the Paris Olympics, 20-year-old Rudrankksh Patil won his first ISSF World Cup title with a dominant performance in the final of the men’s 10m Air Rifle final in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Sunday. The Maharashtra shooter, only the second Indian shooter to win a World Championships gold after 2008 Beijing Olympics champion Abhinav Bindra, led throughout the eight-shooter final and beat Istvan Peni of Hungary in the gold medal elimination with a score of 252.9. In a performance similar to the one at the 2022 World Championships in Cairo, Patil was at his best right from the first series of the final. Barring a 10.0, all his shots were in 10.7 or above, including a 10.9 in the first five-shot series. Story continues below this...