India’s young shooters continued to shine on the seventh day of the ISSF World Championship in Changwon on Friday. Hriday Hazarika notched up a gold medal in the 10m air rifle junior men’s event of the shooting championship.
Hazarika, the lone Indian to qualify for the final with a score of 627.3, was tied with Iran’s Mohammed Amir Nekounam on 250.1 once the field was pruned to the regulation top eight.
A thrilling shoot-off decided the gold medalist of the 10m Air Rifle Men Junior event. #ISSFWCH pic.twitter.com/D8h3fpzoRX
— ISSF (@ISSF_Shooting) September 7, 2018
But the 17-year-old Indian claimed the top honours after prevailing in a shoot-off at the prestigious International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) tournament.
The bronze went to Russia’s Grigorii Shamakov, who managed a score of 228.6 in the final. The Indian team, comprising Hazarika, Divyansh Panwar and Arjun Babuta, finished fourth with a combined total of 1872.3.
There was disappointment for the country in the senior men’s 50m rifle three position competition as none of the Indians in fray managed to make the cut for the finals. Asian Games silver-medallist Sanjeev Rajput was the lowest placed Indian at 58th with a score of 1158.
Swapnil Kusale was 55th with a score of 1161 while Akhil Sheoran took the 44th position with 1167. The Indian team, comprising the trio, ended 11th with a total of 3503.
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