India’s Vijayveer Sidhu clinched a 17th Paris Games quota place for the nation whereas clinching a silver medal within the males’s 25m rapid-fire occasion on the Asia Olympic Qualifiers.
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India’s Vijayveer Sidhu clinched a 17th Paris Games quota place for the nation whereas clinching a silver medal within the males’s 25m rapid-fire occasion on the Asia Olympic Qualifiers right here on Saturday.
The 21-year-old workforce bronze-medallist on the Hangzhou Asian Games final 12 months, joins senior country-mate Anish Bhanwala in securing a Paris berth within the 25m fast hearth.
Anish had bagged the Olympic quota with a bronze medal within the Asian Championship in Changwon, Korea, final 12 months.
Vijayveer didn’t have to attend for a medal to safe a quota place. He earned it by qualifying for the ultimate in fourth place with a rating of 577.
Four out of the six finalists on Saturday had been eligible for quota locations and the teenager, who hails from Chandigarh, did it in type by capturing 28 within the elimination spherical to clinch silver behind Kazakhstan’s Nikita Chiryukin, who shot 32 for the gold medal.
Rapid-fire pistol is historically a robust occasion for India as Vijay Kumar had bagged a silver on the 2012 London Olympic Games.
Before the 2020 Olympics, Anish had regarded a robust contender to e-book a Tokyo berth however had missed out in the course of the ISSF World Cup in New Delhi in 2021.
If each Vijayveer and Anish get the chance to signify the nation on the Paris Olympics, it will likely be the primary such occasion within the rapid-fire capturing.
Indian shooters have to date bagged 4 Paris Olympics quota locations in Jakarta, with Esha Singh (ladies’s 10m air pistol), Varun Tomar (males’s 10m air air pistol), Rhythm Sangwan (ladies’s 25m sports activities pistol) moreover Vijayveer nailing the spots right here.
