Kanak wins bronze, India clinch three medals on day 1 of ISSF Junior World Championships 2024

Kanak was India’s sole individual medallist on day 1 of the ISSF Junior World Championships 2024.

The Indian juniors began the ISSF Junior World Championship 2024 Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun campaign in the Peruvian capital of Lima, with two team golds in men’s and women’s 10m air pistol event respectively while Kanak notched up the first individual medal with a bronze in the women’s air pistol. Their efforts meant India took pole position on the medal tally at the end of competition day one.

Romania and Chinese Taipei bagged two individual golds on offer while five other nations also medalled on the day.

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It was the junior men’s trio of Umesh Choudhary, Pradhyumn Singh and Mukesh Nelavalli, who put India on board first, after they topped the men’s team competition 10m air pistol comfortably with a tally of 1726 points. They were 10 ahead of second placed Romania while Italy took bronze with 1707 points.

Umesh and Pradhyumn in-fact made it to the individual finals with third and fourth-placed finishes in the qualification round. Umesh shot 580 and Pradhyumn 578 but missed out on individual medals with sixth and eighth place finishes respectively. Luca Joldea of Romania won gold and Chinese Taipei’s Hsieh Hsiang-Chen won silver. Mukesh was ninth in qualification with a score of 574.

It was then the turn of the junior women as the combination of Kanishka Dagar, Lakshita and Anjali Chaudhary tallied 1708 to clinch the junior women’s 10m air pistol team gold. They pipped Azerbaijan by a point and bronze-winning Ukraine by four.

Kanishka also made the individual final in third place with a score of 573 along with Kanak who also shot the same score but with lesser inner 10s, to bag the fifth qualifying spot. In the final, while Kanishka finished eighth, Kanak won bronze with a score of 217.6. Chines Taipei’s Chen Yu-Chun won gold, while Slovakia’s Manja Slak won silver.

Parmod, the fourth Indian in the junior men’s event, was 14th with 572 while Gamberya Gowda in the junior men’s shot 557 for a 42nd place finish.

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