Ojasvi gold in India’s 10m air rifle sweep
< period data-ua-type ="1" onclick="stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)"> New Delhi: It was a great day in workplace for Indian shooters at the ISSF Junior World Cup here on Monday. The hosts won 7 out of 9 medals available throughout 3 occasions. The cherry on the cake was a tidy sweep by the ladies in the 10m air rifle last.
Ojasvi Thakur won gold, followed by Hrudya Shri Kondur and Shambhavi Kshirsagar. In the junior guys’s 10m air rifle occasion, India opted for silver and bronze. Ojasvi, 17, topped the podium with an overall of 252.7 in the last, while Hrudya completed with 250.2 for silver. Shambhavi finished the Indian treble with 229.4. “I had actually won silver at my very first junior World Cup previously this year, so winning gold today was great. I shot much better today and I more than happy about it,” Ojasvi, who comes from Kangda in Himachal Pradesh and trains under previous India coach and shooter Suma Shirur, stated after the match. In the males’s classification, wrestler-turned-shooter Himanshu, who comes from Jind, Haryana, scored 250.9, a point more than Dmitrii Pimenov, an Individual Neutral Athlete (AIN), who took silver with 249.9. Abhinav Shaw, nevertheless, did not look really pleased with his bronze, which featured a rating of 228.4. While the 10m air rifle occasions had gold medallists from India, the hosts lost the leading area in the males’s 25m fast fire handgun. Mukesh Nelavalli lost out on gold as he lost the tiebreaker to Aleksandr Kovalev (AIN). In the shoot-off to break the tie, Aleksandr struck 3/5, while Mukesh might get just one hit on the mark. Suraj Sharma took bronze with 21.