Esha Singh won the silver medal in the 25 million pistol competition, and Manu Bhaker ended…
SIFT KAUR SAMRA won her first solo ISSF World Cup gold medal in the Women’s 50m Rifle 3 final.
Esha Singh won the silver medal, while India’s doubles medal winner Manu Bhaker ranked sixth in the 25 million pistol shooting competition on Saturday at ISP Forld Cup. After the fifth series, the 20-year-old Bhaker lost to Germany’s Doreen Vennekamp. Additionally, Sift Kaur Samra showed a sensational performance in the performance to win her first solo ISSF World Cup gold medal in the Women’s 50 million rifle 3 final. So the 23-year-old screener from Faridkot won India’s first gold at the season opening World Cup stage event on the Tiro Federal Argentino de Buenos Aires shooting range late Friday. SIFT scored 458.6 points at the end of the 45 finals.
Now, India has three medals in the competition – a gold medal, a silver medal and a bronze medal. Air Pistol mixed team world champion Esha scored 35 in the women’s 25 million pistol final, trailing China’s Sun Yujie, who beat the gold medal 38 times after the 10th and final five-shot series. Sun’s fellow countrymen won the bronze medal. Two-time Olympic medalist Manu Bhaker also finished the final in the final and finished sixth.
The Indian shooter must first qualify for the last eight in Saturday morning, while Manu, who ranked fourth in the second fast shooting round, took a 294 shot advantage in the second round, finishing third with a total of 585.
(Input with PTI)
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