Shotgun World Cup: India skeet shooters in line for medals in Team occasions

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Indian skeet shooters, together with Olympic quota holders Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, have been in line for medals within the group occasions on the Shotgun World Cup right here.
On Wednesday, each the lads’s and girls’s three-member groups ended the primary three qualification rounds in medal-winning positions, with two extra qualification rounds to go earlier than the finals.

Mairaj and Angad shot scores of 70 and 67 every to finish in twenty first and twenty eighth positions, respectively, within the particular person competitors. Gurjoat Khangura, the third Indian within the fray, obtained forward of them in nineteenth place, matching Mairaj’s rating.
Their mixed effort of 207 put them within the fourth spot for the second within the males’s group occasion.

The girls’s group, comprising Karttiki Singh Shaktawat, Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Ganemat Shekhon, ended day one in third place behind Russia and Kazakhstan after producing a mixed rating of 188.
In the ladies’s skeet particular person competitors, Karttiki was finest positioned in twenty seventh spot with a rating of 64 out of 75. Parinaaz and Ganemat have been twenty eighth and twenty ninth respectively with an identical scores of 62.
The particular person finals are slotted on Thursday, whereas the group finals are scheduled for Friday.
The eight-day competitors is the yr’s first Shotgun World Cup stage and assumes extra significance on condition that this would be the remaining probability for the shooters to qualify for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics on the idea of world rating factors.