Thrilled: Narmada Nithin and Rudrankksh Patil, the mixed air rifle gold medalists.
India swept the mixed air pistol and air rifle gold medals to shoot as much as the highest of the medals desk on the second day of competitors in the World Cup in Cairo, Egypt, on Monday.
World champion Rudrankksh Patil and Narmada Nithin have been good as they beat the Hungarian pair of Eszter Denes and Istvan Peni 16-6 for the gold, in mixed air riifle, after having topped qualification with 635.8, a whopping 4.8 level forward of the second finest team. Rudnrankksh had shot 318.2 and Narmada matched him with 317.6.
Understandably enthusiastic about her maiden worldwide girls’s medal being a gold, Narmada mentioned, “Rudrankksh was outstanding”.
Varun Tomar who had bagged the air pistol bronze, mixed with Rhythm Sangwan to win the mixed air pistol gold. The Indian pair beat the skilled Serbs, Zorana Arunovic and Damir Mikec 16-10, after having topped qualification with 583, one level forward of the Serbian pair.
The outcomes: Mixed air pistol: 1. India-2 (Rhythm Sangwan, Varun Tomar) 16 (583); 2. Serbia (Zorana Arunovic, Damir Mikec) 10 (582); 3. Germany (Sandra Reitz, Robin Walter) 16 (580); 4. France (Camilie Jedrzejewski, Florian Fouquet) 6 (577); 5. India (Divya Subbaraju, Sarabjot Singh) 577.
Mixed air rifle: 1. India-2 (Narmada Nithin, Rudrankksh Patil) 16 (635.8); 2. Hungary (Eszter Denes, Istvan Peni) 6 (631.0); 3. Germany-2 (Lisa Mueller, Maximilian Dallinger) 16 (629.7); 4. Switzerland (Nina Christen, Christoph Duerr) 12 (628.9); 7. India (Tilottama Sen, Hriday Hazarika) 628.8.
