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Elavenil strikes gold in Rio Shooting World Cup

Olympian Elavenil Valarivan won the women’s 10m air rifle event to clinch her second gold at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Rifle/Pistol competition here. Elavenil was perfection personified in the strong eight-woman final field, never scoring below 10.1 throughout the 24 shots. She finished with a score of 252.2 to outgun France’s 20-year-old sensation Oceanne Muller, who won silver with 251.9. China’s Zhang Jiale bagged the bronze. Elavenil had qualified for the final at eighth and final spot with a score of 630.5. Muller had topped with 633.7. Two Chinese shooters Zhang Jiale and Zhang Yu (Olympian) and reigning European champion Jeanette Hegg Duestad of Norway were also among the finalists.Most Read 1 Ridhi Dogra says it’s ‘unfortuna...
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Ganemat Sekhon, from a family of shooters, wins skeet silver at World Cup

Two 22-year-olds, Ganemat Sekhon and Darshna Rathore made it a day to remember for India by winning silver and bronze respectively at the ISSF World Cup in Almaty. Ganemat and Darshna had to battle difficult conditions, including the wind, to finish on the podium. Assem Orynbay of Kazakhstan won gold following a shoot-off after she and Ganemat finished the 60-shot final with 50 hits each. But Ganemat missed the first of two shoot-off targets while Assem didn’t miss. “It was windy here in Almaty and it was getting dark. That’s why I made a slow start in the final. The scoreboard here does not show the scores and I somehow got confused in the end and was overthinking a little bit. The silver medal in tough conditions here has come at the right time in my senior career and I am glad I am r...
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Manu Bhaker: ‘I hope I keep improving’: Manu Bhaker hopes Bhopal World Cup bronze is a sign of good days ahead | More sports News – Times of India

BHOPAL: The wide smile on Manu Bhaker's face said it all. Before the 25m pistol final on Saturday here at the ISSF World Cup, and even before the rapid stage of qualification, Manu was trying her best to hide her nervousness. Her father was by her side for all this while, perhaps because he had spotted the jitters in her daughter and tried comforting with his presence.It's been two years, since the Delhi World Cup in 2021, that Manu was on the podium of a senior international event. She had come close a few times and was close again now. Quite clearly, she didn't want to let it slip.She started the ranking match nervously, but held her nerve to find 14 hits, the same as eventual gold medal winner Doreen Vennekamp of Germany, and leave compatriot Esha Singh behind to enter the medal matc...
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ISSF World Cup Bhopal: Rifleman Rudrankksh Patil bags his second bronze medal | More sports News – Times of India

BHOPAL: 19-year-old Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil put his hand on his chest to feel his heart after his last shot. "I think it was racing at around 200," he said with a smile following his second bronze-medal finish at the ISSF World Cup here at the Madhya Pradesh State Shooting Academy.Patil didn't get a good start in the ranking match after finishing fourth among the top eight qualifiers with a score of 631.0. But he erased the deficit of 0.8 in the fifth series of five shots to break into top three that was until then being dominated by the Chinese trio of Sheng Lihao, Du Linshu and Yu Haonan (261.7), who was left in fourth place by Patil's 262.3 for a bronze medal.First results of the day at the @issf_official World Cup Rifle/Pistol Bhopal. @Tokyo2020 silver medalist Sheng Liha… https:...
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Shooting World Cup: India’s task cut out with China back in the fray | More sports News – Times of India

BHOPAL: The ranges at the Madhya Pradesh State Shooting Academy have a different feel to them starting today. After impressing the Indian shooting fraternity since its inception, the highly-rated shooting facility will welcome the world's elite shooters for the ISSF World Cup (Rifle/Pistol), which marks a special occasion for hosts India.It will be the eighth time that India will host a World Cup but the first at a location outside Delhi's famed Dr Karni Singh Shooting ranges.Barkheda, the town in Bhopal where the MPSSA is located, gives the feel of a sports city -- with the Sports Authority of India centre and the state's equestrian academy just a stone's throw away from the shooting academy. The area is actually marked by the state government to bring up world class infrastructure acr...
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Following Abhinav Bindra’s footsteps, Rudrankksh Patil finds ‘sixth gear to his car’ by working with German coach Heinz Reinkemeier

Rudrankksh Patil took two trips to Germany seeking control over his mind last year. The teen’s short journeys – one just eight-day-long and another for 15 days – retraced the ones that his idol Abhinav Bindra would frequently undertake during his career to work under renowned coach Heinz Reinkemeier. The German coach is known to have moulded the careers of not just India’s first individual Olympic medallist, but also Athens Olympics finalist Suma Shirur, who is currently a coach with the Indian rifle team. “Reinkemeier’s experience is the sixth gear to my car. He was the coach of many Olympic medallists. Due to that, he has tremendous experience in all the other fields, not just shooting,” Rudrankksh told The Indian Express from Cairo after winning gold in the 10m air rifle event at the...
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ISSF Shooting World Cup: Rudrankksh Patil wins 10m air rifle gold | More sports News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Rudrankksh Patil won the gold medal in the men's 10m air rifle competition of the ISSF Shooting World Cup in Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday. Rudrankksh battled past Germany's Maximilian Ulbrich 16-8 in the gold medal contest. Rudrankksh is a reigning world champion. India now has four medals in its kitty, including three gold medals.Rudrankksh also topped the ranking round with a total score of 262.0, with Ulbrich scoring 260.6.Earlier, Rudrankksh qualified for the ranking matches after finishing seventh in the qualification round with a score of 629.3.The other Indian shooters in the fray men's 10m air rifle, Divyansh Singh Panwar and Hriday Hazarika narrowly missed out on qualification.Indian shooters swept the mixed team air pistol and rifle competitions on Monday.R Narmada Nith...
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Inspired by Saurabh bhaiya, Varun Tomar wins India first medal at the ISSF Cairo World Cup

Munkhbayar Dorjsuren looked like she could barely watch. The fight to claim the bronze medal in the men’s 10m air pistol event at the ISSF Cairo World Cup had boiled down to a single shot. It was a winner-takes-all shoot-off between two of Dorjsuren’s wards in the Indian shooting team: 21-year-old Sarabjot Singh and 19-year-old Varun Tomar. They had jockeyed for the last medal spot throughout the ranking match – with Sarabjot in third after 10 shots, Tomar leapfrogging him by the 15th, before being deadlocked at 250.6 after 25 shots to decide the bronze medal. In one shot, one of the two would take home India’s first medal at the Cairo World Cup while the other would return empty-handed. Eventually, it was Tomar’s 10.3 that helped him pip his senior compatriot by a margin of 0.2. “He’s ...