Prithviraj Tondaiman (IANS)
Prithviraj completed with 20 hits from the primary 25 targets in the medal match to accept bronze on the Lusail Shooting Range
India’s Prithviraj Tondaiman, gained his first particular person World Cup stage medal after he completed third in the lads’s entice competitors on the ongoing International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun in Doha, Qatar.
Prithviraj completed with 20 hits from the primary 25 targets in the medal match to accept bronze on the Lusail Shooting Range.
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The 40-year-old Turkish athlete Tuzun Oguzhan gained gold, after coming by a 14-way shoot-off for the ultimate qualifying spot. He shot 33 targets in the 35-shot medal match as Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Matthew John Coward-Holley gained silver with 30 hits to his title.
Prithviraj was fourth in a single day after 75 targets on Day One of qualification and shot two rounds of 24 every early on Saturday to put up a rating of 122.
That ensured a top-eight end, however he nonetheless needed to undergo a shoot-off to find out qualifying ranks. He completed third in the five-way shoot-off to say the sixth qualifying spot and get into the first-ranking match. In all, 14 shooters completed on 121 and Tuzun gained that shoot-off to say the eighth and closing qualifying spot.
In his 25-shot rating match, Prithviraj missed simply three targets to high the sphere with 22 hits. Matthew hit 21 and accompanied Prithviraj to the medal match, the place Tuzun and Nased Meqlad of Kuwait joined them. Both Prithviraj and Naser then missed two of the primary 15 medal match targets, however Naser bowed out on account of the decrease bib quantity, making certain the Indian’s first particular person ISSF World Cup stage medal.
Former Commonwealth Games champion Shreyasi Singh additionally made the rating spherical in the ladies’s entice competitors however bowed out with 21 hits out of 25. Tokyo Olympics Mixed Team Trap gold medallist Fatima Galvez of Spain topped the match with 24 hits, whereas eventual gold medallist Penny Smith of Australia additionally made it to the medal match with 23 hits.
Shreyasi had earlier equalled the nationwide document rating of 118 to complete sixth in qualifying. She shot rounds of 24 and 22 on the day after which, though qualification was assured, additionally gained a three-way shoot-off with seven straight hits, to cement the sixth spot.
Also in the ladies’s entice, Rajeshwari Kumari recovered from a horrendous first one, ending with rounds of twenty-two and 23 to say the forty sixth spot with a rating of 107. The third Indian in competition, Preeti Rajak, shot 105 to finish additional down at fiftieth place. Kirti Gupta, who performed for rating factors solely shot 110.
Bhowneesh Mendiratta was the second-best Indian in males’s entice with a rating of 120, giving him a Twenty seventh-place end whereas Zoravar Singh Sandhu shot 119 to say the thirty eighth spot. Kynan Chenai shot 118 enjoying for rating factors solely.
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