Cairo, April 25: Vanshika Chaudhary and Chirag Sharma won the 10m air pistol mixed team event at the ISSF Junior World Cup here on Saturday, taking India’s gold tally to five.
With one more day of competitions left, India continued to lead the medal table with five gold, five silver and four bronze.
The duo shot 484.3 to shrug off the challenge of Aliaksandra Piatrova and Mikita Daubash (467.6) representing the Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN). The second Indian pair of Mohini Singh and Himanshu Rana tallied 407.4 to clinch bronze in the four-team final.
Vanshika and Chirag had earlier shot a combined 582 on Saturday morning at the Olympic International City Shooting range to top the 14-team qualifiers while Mohini and Himanshu finished third as well with a 568.
It was a second gold in the tournament for Vanshika having earlier won the individual women’s 10m air pistol title. It was also a second medal for Chirag, who had earlier won bronze in the junior men’s air pistol.
The Trap men’s and women’s competitions also concluded on the day where India had one finalist each. Both Zuhair Khan and Bhavya Tripathi claimed the sixth qualifying spot in their respective qualifiers. While Zuhair shot 115, Bhavya recorded 108 after five rounds.
Bhavya then finished eighth in the junior women’s trap final, where Italian Martina Montani won gold with a new junior world record score of 26 hits out of a possible 30.
In the men’s final, Zuhair finished seventh as France’s Agez Thomas also shot a junior world record score of 28 to win the event. (PTI)
