Sarabjot bags gold at shooting WC

Bhopal, March 22: Sarabjot Singh shot down a gold in men’s air pistol while Varun Tomar clinched a bronze in the same event as India opened their ISSF Pistol/Rifle World Cup campaign with two medals here on Wednesday.
The Indian women air pistol shooters though couldn’t make it to the medal bracket, with Manu Bhaker, Divya Subbaraju and Rhythm Sangwan failing to come good on the inaugural day of competitions here.
Sarabjot, the 2021 junior world champion in the team and mixed team categories, defeated Azerbaijan’s Ruslan Lunev 16-0 in the gold-medal match in the first final of the World Cup.
The 21-year-old Sarabjot was in awesome form all through as he emerged leader at the end of the qualification round with 585 points.
Sarabjot was hitting the bulls eye every time he took aim, with his scores of 98, 97, 99, 97, 97, 97 in the six qualification series suggesting he would be hard to beat.
China’s Liu Jinyao was a close second at 584. (PTI)