ISSF World Cup: Sarabjot won gold in Shooting World Cup air pistol, women missed

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ISSF World Cup Shooting Championship: India’s Sarabjot Singh opened India’s medal tally by winning gold in the men’s air pistol category at the ISSF Pistol Rifle World Cup, while Varun Tomar won a bronze in the same event. Indian women air pistol shooters, however, could not win a medal. Manu Bhaker, Divya Subbaraju and Rhythm Sangwan were defeated.

Sarabjot defeated Azerbaijan’s Lunev 16-0.

Sarabjot, the junior world champion in the team and mixed team categories two years ago, defeated Ruslan Lunev of Azerbaijan 16-0. He had earlier scored 585 in the qualifying round. Sarabjot scored 98, 97, 99, 97, 97, 97 in the qualification series. Liu Jinyao of China finished second. Sarabjot shot 253. 2 and Ruslan scored 251.9 points. Varun finished third with 250.3 points.

Rhythm and Manu could not make it to the ranking round

Under the new ISSF format, two points are awarded for winning a shot in the final and the first to complete 16 points is the winner. In the women’s section, Divya secured the third position in the qualification round with 579 marks. She finished fifth in the final, while Li Shui of China won the gold, Doreen Wei of Germany won the silver and Wei Qian of China won the bronze. Rhythm and Manu could not make it to the ranking round and finished 13th and 16th in the qualifying round.

Six other shooters – Jason Solari (Switzerland, 583 points), Vladimir Svetchinko (Uzbekistan, 582), Frederik Larsen (Denmark, 580), Zhang Jie (China, 580), Ruslan Lunev (Azerbaijan, 579) and Varun Tomar (India, 579) – completed the list of eight shooters who made it to the ranking rounds.

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