India’s teenage shooting sensations extended their dominance in the ongoing ISSF World Cup here on Monday, winning the mixed team gold medals in both the 10m air pistol and 10m air rifle events in the run-up to this year’s Olympics.
With Monday’s three gold medals, India have so far notched up six top finishes, four silver and as many bronze medals for a total of 14.
The teenage duo of Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker won the 10m air pistol mixed team gold medal after Divyansh Singh Panwar and Elavenil Valarivan claimed the top spot in the 10m mixed air rifle event.
Chaudhary and the 19-year-old Bhaker defeated Golnoush Sebhatollahi and Javed Foroughi of Iran 16-12. This was the pair’s fifth World Cup mixed team gold medal.
Earlier on Monday, 21-year-old Elavenil and 18-year-old Divyansh had combined to claim the 10m air rifle mixed team gold. This was Elavenil’s first at the senior level, while fourth for Divyansh at the senior World Cups.
Later, India’s Gurjoat Khangura, Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa defeated Qatar’s Nasser Al-Attiya, Ali Ahmed AO Al-Ishaq and Rashid Hamad 6-2 to win the men’s skeet team gold.
In the women’s skeet final, India’s Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Karttiki Singh Shaktawat and Ganemat Sekhon settled for silver after losing to Kazakhstan’s Rinata Nassyrova, Olga Panarina and Zoya Kravchenko 4-6.
