Ganemat Sekhon and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa bagged the skeet mixed team gold medal, producing a top performance in the final and extending the India’s dominance at the ISSF World Cup in Delhi on Tuesday.
With this, table-topper India’s gold medal haul at the ongoing event went up to seven.
There was just one final scheduled for Tuesday and India’s shooters were on target in it. The Indian pair beat Kazakhstan’s Olga Panarina and Alexandr Yechshenko with a score of 33-29 to clinch the seventh gold medal for the hosts. They had earlier topped the qualification with a score of 141.
Another Indian pair of Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Mairaj Ahmad Khan, however, missed the bronze medal by a whisker at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range. They lost to Qatar’s Rashid Hamad and Reem al Sharshani 32-31 in the bronze medal match.
The duo had produced a perfect score in the final four shots even as 19-year-old Dhaliwal crumbled under pressure and missed a shot to miss out of the medal.
Earlier, the 20-year-old Sekhon had won the country’s first-ever ISSF World Cup medal in the women’s skeet event when she bagged a bronze on the third competition day.
You can watch the final here:
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