BAKU, Aug 22: India’s Adarsh Singh finished ninth in the Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol at the ongoing International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championship (All Events) in Baku, Azerbaijan, missing a Paris Olympics quota by the narrowest of margins.
Adarsh shot 583 in the qualification stage, the same as Denys Kushnirov of Ukraine who bagged the sixth and last spot in the final a statement released said.
However, as things stood the fourth and final Paris quota available in the event went to Estonia’s Peeter Olesk, who also shot a 583.
He finished one spot ahead of Adarsh on countback.
The other quotas in the event went to China, Japan and Ukraine respectively.
Among the other Indians in the fray in the event, Vijayveer Sidhu shot 577 to finish in the 25th spot in the 76-strong field.
Anish shot 575 to finish in 32nd position. (IANS)
