New Delhi, May 10: Neeru Dhanda and Vivaan Kapoor signed off with a bronze medal in the trap mixed team event as India ended its campaign at the World Cup Shotgun on a positive note in Almaty, Kazakhstan on Sunday.
The medal was the first ISSF World Cup podium finish for Neeru and Vivaan in the Olympic event and India’s second since mixed team trap was added to the Olympic programme last year.
Neeru and Vivaan shot 24 out of the first 30 targets in the final and despite matching the top Italian pair of Silvana Stanco and Mauro De Filippis, they had to miss out on a better medal, having finished second to the silver winning Italians in qualification.
Chinese Taipei’s Kun-Pi Yang and Wan-Yu Liu won a second World Cup gold with a world record score of 36 in the final.
Vivaan and Neeru had shot 143 in qualification, finishing just two behind Silvana, a Paris Olympic silver medallist, and Mauro, a former world champion in the event. (PTI)
