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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.