India win 10 gold medals at Junior World Shooting Championships

It's been a successful tournament for the country's shooters so far.

India won its 10thgold medal of International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Championship, being held at the Las Palmas Shooting range in Lima, Peru. Vijayveer Sidhu and Rhythm Sangwan outclassed Thailand’s Kanyakom Hirunphoem and Schwakon Triniphakorn 9-1 in the gold medal contest on Thursday, October 07, 2021. 

Also winning silver on the day were the Junior Women’s 50M Rifle 3 Positions (3P) Team comprising shooters Prasiddhi Mahant, Nishcal and Ayushi Podder. The second Indian pair in the Mixed Rapid Fire Pistol, Tejaswini and Anish, also won bronze, making it a total haul of 23 medals thus far with two more competition days remaining.

Vijayveer and Rhythm came through two rounds of qualifying to completely dominate their match against the Thai pair, not allowing them to win even one series. The 3P Women on the other hand went down fighting to a quality US trio tying at 43-43 at one stage to eventually go down 43-47.

In the Mixed Rapid Fire bronze match, Indian shooters Tejaswini and Anish put it over a second Thai pair by a scoreline of 10-8.

There are two medal events scheduled on Friday, the penultimate day of competitions. India enjoys a healthy cushion on top of the medals tally after nine days of competition with 10 gold, nine silver and four bronze medals. The USA is second with six gold.

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