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A product of London Olympics bronze medallist Gagan Narang, this gifted shooter defied all odds as did his parents in pursuing his passion for the sport and more importantly performing consistently

Elavenil Valarivan secured a gold medal in the women's 10 m air rifle event at the ongoing ISSF World Cup

India finished on top of the ISSF Junior World Cup with an overhaul haul of 15 medals

Abhinav Shaw and Gautami Bhanot teamed up in the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team event to give India their second gold

Rhythm Sangwan, broke a 29-year-old world record but missed a second medal at the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol

New Delhi: Experienced Indian shooter Anjum Moudgil clinched a silver in the Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions as India moved up to third spot in the medal tally at the ISSF World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Friday. Anjum went down 12-16 in the gold medal match to Denmark’s Rikke Maeng Ibsen. Anjum, also a […]

New Delhi: Indian shooter Swapnil Kusale won a silver medal in the men’s 50m rifle 3 positions (3P) event at the ISSF World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan on Thursday, giving the country its second medal of the competition. The 26-year-old Swapnil went down 10-16 to Rio Olympics silver winner Serhiy Kulish of Ukraine in the […]

New Delhi: The 12-member Indian rifle squad opened their account at the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun in Baku, Azerbaijan, with gold in the 10m air rifle women’s team competition on Tuesday. The trio of Elavenil Valarivan, Ramita and Shreya Agrawal outplayed Denmark 17-5 in the gold-medal match. They had reached the gold-medal round after two […]

New Delhi: India’s Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil finished seventh in the 10m Air Rifle Men’s competition at the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Sunday. The 18-year-old Junior World Championship silver medallist had made the top eight stage on Saturday, finishing fourth in qualification. Serbia’s Lazar Kovacevic won gold while Croatian Miran Maricic bagged […]

Rahi Sarnobat, Esha Singh and Rhythm Sangwan defeated the Singaporean trio of Xiu Hong, Shun Xie and Ling Chiao Nicole Tan in the gold medal match-up.

New Delhi: The Indian women’s 25m pistol team, comprising Rahi Sarnobat, Esha Singh and Rhythm Sangwan, has made it to the gold-medal match in the ISSF World Cup (rifle/pistol) under way in Cairo, Egypt, assuring themselves of a medal. On Saturday evening, the team topped the second qualification stage with a combined effort of 441 […]

Cairo: Hyderabad shooter Esha Singh won a silver medal in the women’s 10m air pistol event in the year’s first ISSF World Cup in Cairo on Tuesday. Earlier, Saurabh Chaudhary clinched the gold medal in the men’s 10m air pistol event earlier in the day. In the women’s 10m air pistol event, Esha went down to […]

Cairo: Indian shooting ace Saurabh Chaudhary won the gold medal in the men’s 10m air pistol event, opening the country’s account in the year’s first ISSF World Cup here on Tuesday. The Asian Games gold medallist shot 16 in the gold medal contest to finish ahead of Germany’s Michael Schwald (6). The bronze in the […]

Dominating the event from start to end, hosts India topped the chart with an incredible tally of 30 medals, half of them being gold

In an all-Indian gold medal match, Sidhu and Tejaswini comfortably beat the duo of Gurpreet Singh and Ashok Abhidnya Patil 9-1 at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range.

Upon winning this table-topper India's gold haul at the ongoing event went up to seven.

Saurabh-Manu top in 10m air pistol; Divyansh-Elavenil triumph

Divyansh got a score of 228.1 in the final. Lucas Kozeniesky of USA won gold with 249.8 while Hungary's Istvan Peni finished second with 249.1.

India is fielding a strong 57-member squad, including the 15 quota holders for the Tokyo Olympics.

Narang had qualified for the 2008 ISSF World Cup Final after he won a gold in the World Cup in China earlier in 2008. Gagan shot a perfect 600 in the qualification round.