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  • Rhythm and Anish win 25m fast hearth pistol blended crew gold as India high medal tally

    India’s Rhythm Sangwan and Anish Bhanwala received the gold medal within the 25m fast hearth pistol blended crew occasion on the concluding day of the ISSF World Cup right here on Monday.

    The Indian duo emerged victorious by a margin of 17-7 over Thailand within the gold medal match.

    The nation thus topped the medal’s tally with 4 gold, two silver and one bronze because the yr’s first ISSF World Cup concluded within the Egyptian capital.

    On the ultimate day of competitions, India additionally received a silver within the males’s 25m fast hearth pistol occasion, taking place to Germany 7-17 within the title decider.

    Rhythm and Anish made it via to the gold medal match after ending second in spherical two of qualification with a rating of 370 out of 400. Thailand’s Paduka Chawisa and Ram Khamhaeng had topped the qualification with 381 to setup the title conflict with India.

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    On the ultimate day India received:

    🥇25M Rapid Fire Pistol Mixed Team- @anish__bhanwala & #RhythmSangwan

    🥈 25M Rapid Fire Pistol Men’s Team- Anish, #GurpreetSingh & #BhaveshShekhawat

    With this #TeamIndia🇮🇳 completed on 🔝 of the medal tally..
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    — SAI Media (@Media_SAI) March 7, 2022

    Esha Singh and Bhavesh Shekhawat, the second Indian pair within the high eight stage, led to fifth place with 356 factors.

    Earlier, within the 10-team qualification stage one, Rhythm and Anish had topped the sector with a rating of 566 out of 600, to Paduka and Ram’s 562.

    Esha and Bhavesh simply made it via to the following spherical with a rating of 539 for an eighth-place end.

    In the ultimate, the place two factors are awarded to the crew with the very best cumulative rating after every member has shot a 5-shot fast hearth sequence, Rhythm and Anish wanted 12 rounds to cross the coveted 16-point mark required to win.

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    It was shut at first with the scores studying 7-5 in India’s favour after the primary six rounds.

    However, Rhythm and Anish didn’t lose any of the next six rounds, splitting factors in solely two of them, to seal gold.

    The males’s 25m fast hearth pistol crew competitors noticed India taking up Germany within the gold medal match. The German crew which had Rio Olympic champion Christian Reitz, in addition to Geis Oliver and Peter Florian, proved superior to the Indian trio of Gurpreet Singh, Anish Bhanwala and Bhavesh Shekhawat.

    This was India’s second silver of the competitors after Esha Singh’s particular person silver within the girls’s 10m air pistol occasion.

    Overall, Norway got here second with three gold, one silver and two bronze medals whereas France had been third with three gold out of the 20 on supply.

    A complete of twenty-two international locations received medals within the event.

    Over 500 athletes from 60 nations had entered to participate within the Cairo World Cup.

  • Young gun Vijayveer Sidhu, 18, betters fancied compatriots to win silver

    As issues typically are in taking pictures, it was a matter of millimetres.
    In an hour between the qualification spherical and his maiden last, Vijayveer Sidhu visualised a number of match conditions.What he didn’t contemplate was being in rivalry for a quota for the Tokyo Olympics. “Never thought of it. Not once,” the 18-year-old insisted.
    Yet, his steely nerves and calm manner propelled Sidhu to a place not many had anticipated.
    After half-a-day of competitors, Sidhu and Estonia’s Peeter Olesk have been the one ones standing within the World Cup last of the 25m fast fireplace, an exhilarating self-discipline that calls for excessive degree of alertness, focus and coordination together with the flexibility to remain calm within the face of intense stress.
    The state of affairs for the gold medal sequence, a tiebreaker, was easy: in 4 seconds, the shooter who hit many of the 5 targets, positioned 25 metres away in entrance of them, would win the gold medal, take 1,000 rating factors and all however seal an Olympic quota.
    Just this one time, Sidhu wavered. He hit only one goal, Olesk missed just one; gold, Estonia. India gained a dozen gold medals on this World Cup however in the one last that mattered, the one which wasn’t mere match follow, and had one thing at stake, they fell agonisingly brief.

    #VijayveerSidhu wins a 🥈 in males’s 25m fast fireplace pistol on the @ISSF_Shooting World Cup after a tightly contested last. Many Congratulations! 👏👏#Shooting #BestofShooting pic.twitter.com/5kxgVYsDy5
    — SAIMedia (@Media_SAI) March 26, 2021
    Sidhu didn’t consider a quota as a result of he wasn’t anticipated to. This was, in spite of everything, the rookie’s first World Cup.
    He was right here simply to get some expertise earlier than coaching his sights on the Paris Olympics three years later.
    The focus was extra on the 2 different Indians on this occasion: Gurpreet Singh – whose dramatic week noticed him compelled into isolation after a false Covid-positive report after which overcoming a pistol malfunction throughout qualifying to make the ultimate, the place he was the primary to exit.
    Anish Bhanwala, a junior world champion, Commonwealth Games gold medalist and India’s highest-ranked shooter internationally on this occasion was the second to get eradicated from the ultimate.
    But in Sidhu, Indian taking pictures appears to have discovered a real expertise in an occasion the place the nation has gained an Olympic silver medal, Vijay Kumar on the 2012 Olympics.
    It was, nevertheless, Gagan Narang’s bronze within the 10m air rifle on the London Games and never Kumar’s medal that drew Sidhu to the game. “After Gagan sir won a medal, there was a shooting camp at my school in Mansa. I gave it a shot and have continued since then,” Sidhu, who has an an identical twin, Udayveer, additionally a shooter, mentioned.
    In 2015, the Sidhus relocated to Chandigarh in the hunt for higher coaching amenities. Since then, the twins steadily rose by way of the home ranks, halting coaching solely throughout their father’s premature demise in 2017.
    A yr later, the Sidhu brothers gained workforce gold on the World Championships in Changwon. Sidhu, who typically groups up with rifle shooter Anjum Moudgil for exercise classes when in Chandigarh, went on to bag the nationwide title in 2019 and this yr, he gained the trials to cement his standing as the highest pistol shooter within the nation.
    “His progress has been steady over the last few years,” nationwide pistol coach Samresh Jung mentioned. “He remains cool in pressure situations and is very focused, two key attributes in this event.”
    Save for tie-breaking sequence of 5 photographs, Sidhu personified these traits. He nonetheless has an outdoor likelihood to win a quota for the Tokyo Olympics. If Olesk wins the gold medal on the European Championship in May, a spot will open up for the highest-ranked shooter but to win a quota. If permutations on the time work out in Sidhu’s favour, he might discover himself on the flight to Tokyo.
    He, nevertheless, isn’t fascinated with the sophisticated qualification situations. “I won a silver medal here, I’m okay with it. I am satisfied with what I have,” he mentioned. “This is a long journey.”
    Despite a silver, India’s probabilities for a Tokyo quota in fast fireplace pistol could have diminished. But in Sidhu, the nation has somebody to pin hopes on for Paris in 2024.
    Kynan fourth
    India additionally missed an outdoor likelihood to win a quota within the males’s lure occasion.
    Kynan Chenai, who wanted to win a gold to get himself into rivalry, managed a fourth-place end.
    Former world champion Daniele Resca of Italy gained the gold whereas reigning world champion Alberto Fernandez gained silver. Valerio Grazini of Italy was third.

  • Indian staff for Delhi World Cup picked, likelihood for Anish Bhanwala to stake declare for Tokyo

    Image Source : PTI Commonwealth Games gold medallist Anish Bhanwala
    Notwithstanding his subdued outing in nationwide choice trials, Commonwealth Games gold medallist Anish Bhanwala was on Tuesday picked in Indian males’s 25m rapid-fire staff for the ISSF World Cup in Delhi owing to his higher prospects of securing an Olympic quota.
    All the nation’s high shooters, together with the 15 Tokyo Olympics quota holders, are going to take part within the mega occasion, scheduled to be held on the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range from March 18-29.
    The 18-year-old Anish is at the moment ranked twelfth on the earth however seventh in India. The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) may allot particular person quota to the athlete who accumulates extra rating factors by May 31.
    The deadline for allotting particular person quota is May 31.
    Winner of a number of medals within the junior World Cups in 2018 and 2019, Anish hasn’t been in the most effective of kind in current instances, failing to fireplace within the nationwide choice trials for the event in Delhi.
    No Indian shooter has to this point secured a Tokyo Games quota in males’s 25m rapid-fire, the occasion by which Vijay Kumar claimed a silver on the 2012 London Olympics.
    World primary Elavenil Valarivan figures within the girls’s 10m air rifle staff alongside quota holders Apurvi Chandela and Anjum Moudgil.
    The New Delhi World Cup will see as many as 30 finals being held at an ISSF World Cup stage for the primary time with the brand new staff codecs permitted by the worldwide physique final yr.
    “All selections were based on latest National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) rankings, save Anish’s selection in men’s 25m rapid-fire pistol squad, given his present high world ranking of 12 gives him a better chance of securing a Tokyo 2020 quota pending a good finish,” the federation mentioned in a launch.
    A complete of 42 nations have to this point confirmed their entries. Prominent amongst them are Korea, Singapore, USA, United Kingdom, Iran, Ukraine, France, Hungary, Italy, Thailand and Turkey.
    Countries who haven’t despatched of their entries embrace the likes of China, Japan, Germany, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Kuwait and Malaysia.
    This is the biggest taking pictures contingent in Indian Olympic historical past.
    Teams:
    10M AIR RIFLE MEN1. DIVYANSH SINGH PANWAR, 2. ARJUN BABUTA, 3. DEEPAK KUMAR, 4. PANKAJ KUMAR, MQS, 5. AISHWARY PRATAP SINGH TOMAR, MQS
    50M RIFLE 3 POSITION MEN1. SANJEEV RAJPUT, 2. AISHWARY PRATAP SINGH TOMAR, 3. NIRAJ KUMAR, 4. SWAPNIL KUSALE, MQS, 5. CHAIN SINGH, MQS,
    10M AIR PISTOL MEN1. SAURABH CHAUDHARY, 2. ABHISHEK VERMA, 3. SARABJOT SINGH, 4. RAVINDER SINGH, MQS, 5. SHAHZAR RIZVI, MQS
    25M RAPID FIRE PISTOL MEN1. VIJAYVEER SIDHU, 2. GURPREET SINGH, 3. ANISH, 4. ARPIT GOEL, MQS, 5. ADARSH SINGH, MQS​​​
    TRAP MEN1. KYNAN CHENAI, 2. LAKSHAY, 3. PRITHVIRAJ TONDAIMAN, 4. ZORAVAR SINGH SANDHU, MQS, 5. NAMANVEER SINGH BRAR, MQS
    SKEET MEN1. ANGADVIR SINGH BAJWA, 2. MAIRAJ AHMAD KHAN, 3. GURJOAT SIINGH KHANGURA, 4. KARAM SUKHBIR SINGH, MQS, 5. AMRINDER SINGH CHEEMA, MQS
    10M AIR RIFLE WOMEN1. ELAVENIL VALARIVAN, 2. ANJUM MOUDGIL, 3. APURVI CHANDELA, 4. SHRIYANKA SADANGI, MQS, 5. NISHA KANWAR, MQS
    50M RIFLE 3 POSITION WOMEN1. TEJASWINI SAWANT, 2. SUNIDHI CHAUHAN, 3. ANJUM MOUDGIL, 4. GAAYATHRI N., MQS, 5. SHREYA SAKSENA, MQS

    10M AIR PISTOL WOMEN1. MANU BHAKER, 2. YASHASWINI SINGH DESWAL, 3. P. SHRI NIVETHA, 4. SHWETA SINGH, MQS, 5. ESHA SINGH, MQS
    25M SPORTS PISTOL WOMEN1. MANU BHAKER, 2. RAHI SARNOBAT, 3. CHINKI YADAV, 4. NEERAJ KAUR, MQS, 5. ABHIDNYA ASHOK PATIL, MQS
    TRAP WOMEN1. RAJESHWARI KUMARI, 2. SHREYASI SINGH, 3. MANISHA KEER, 4. KIRTI GUPTA, MQS5. NEERU, MQS
    SKEET WOMEN1. GANEMAT SEKHON, 2. PARINAAZ DHALIWAL, 3. KARTTIKI SINGH SHAKTAWAT,4. DARSHANA RATHORE, MQS, 5. ZAHRA MUFADDAL DEESAWALA, MQS
    10M AIR RIFLE MIXED TEAM1. DIVYANSH SINGH PANWAR, 2. ELAVENIL VALARIVAN1. ARJUN BABUTA, 2. ANJUM MOUDGIL
    50M RIFLE 3 POSITION MIXED TEAM1. SANJEEV RAJPUT, 2. TEJASWINI SAWANT1. AISHWARY PRATAP SINGH TOMAR, 2. SUNIDHI CHAUDHAN

    10M AIR PISTOL MIXED TEAM1. SAURABH CHAUDHARY, 2. MANU BHAKER1. ABHISHEK VERMA, 2. YASHASWINI SINGH DESWAL
    25M RAPID FIRE PISTOL MIXED TEAM1. VIJAYVEER SIDHU, 2. TEJASWANI1. GURPREET SINGH, 2. ABHIDNYA ASHOK PATIL
    TRAP MIXED TEAM1. KYNAN CHENAI, 2. RAJESHWARI KUMARI1. LAKSHAY, 2. SHREYASI SINGH
    SKEET MIXED TEAM1. ANGADVIR SINGH BAJWA, 2. GANEMAT SEKHON1. MAIRAJ AHMAD KHAN, 2. PARINAAZ DHALIWAL
    10M AIR RIFLE MEN TEAM1. DEEPAK KUMAR, 2. PANKAJ KUMAR, 3. AISHWARY PRATAP SINGH TOMAR
    50M RIFLE 3 POSITION MEN TEAM1. NIRAJ KUMAR, 2. SWAPNIL KUSALE, 3. CHAIN SINGH
    10M AIR PISTOL MEN TEAM1. SAURABH CHAUDHARY, 2. ABHISHEK VERMA, 3. SARABJOT SINGH
    25M RAPID FIRE PISTOL MEN TEAM1. VIJAYVEER SIDHU, 2. GURPREET SINGH, 3. ARPIT GOEL​​​
    TRAP MEN TEAM1. KYNAN CHENAI, 2. LAKSHAY, 3. PRITHVIRAJ TONDAIMAN
    SKEET MEN TEAM1. ANGADVIR SINGH BAJWA, 2. MAIRAJ AHMAD KHAN, 3. GURJOAT SIINGH KHANGURA
    10M AIR RIFLE WOMEN TEAM1. APURVI CHANDELA, 2. SHRIYANKA SADANGI, 3. NISHA KANWAR
    50M RIFLE 3 POSITION WOMEN TEAM1. ANJUM MOUDGIL, . GAAYATHRI N, 3. SHREYA SAKSENA
    10M AIR PISTOL WOMEN TEAM1. MANU BHAKER, 2. YASHASWINI SINGH DESWAL, 3. P. SHRI NIVETHA
    25M SPORTS PISTOL WOMEN TEAM1. MANU BHAKER, 2. RAHI SARNOBAT, 3. CHINKI YADAV
    TRAP WOMEN TEAM1. RAJESHWARI KUMARI, 2. SHREYASI SINGH, 3. MANISHA KEER
    SKEET WOMEN TEAM1. GANEMAT SEKHON, 2. PARINAAZ DHALIWAL, 3. KARTTIKI SINGH SHAKTAWAT.