Indians Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Deepak Kumar and Pankaj Kumar combined to win the silver medal in the men’s team air rifle event on the third day of ISSF World Cup competition on Sunday.
The Indian trio shot a total of 14 in the gold medal round to finish behind the winning team of Lucas Kozeniesky, William Shaner and Timothy Sherry of the United States.
Team USA shot 16.
The Indian team qualified second in the race for the gold medal round after shooting 623.4 in the second qualifying series behind the US’s 625.1.
South Korea (621.2), represented by Taeyun Nam, Byounggil Choo and Jae Seung Chung and Iranians Pourya Norouziyan, Hossein Bagheri and Amir Mohammad Nekounam (620.1) played the match for the bronze medal, with the former finishing third on the podium after the Kenyans didn’t. Start.
Previously, in the first ranking, the Indian trio topped the list with a total score of 1885.9 ahead of 1880.8 from the USA, 1880.3 from Korea and 1869.7 from Iran at the firing range of the Dr. Karni Singh.
A total of 294 shooters from 53 countries, including Korea, Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom, Iran, Ukraine, France, Hungary, Italy, Thailand and Turkey, are participating in the tournament.
The tournament started on Friday.
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