Sydney, Mar 27:
The duo of Manu Bhaker and Anmol secured India’s seventh gold medal in the ISSF junior World Cup by winning the mixed 10m air pistol event with a qualification world record here today.
Genemat Sekhon bagged an individual bronze medal in the junior women’s skeet, shooting a 36 in the final.
In the mixed 10m air rifle event, 17-year-old Shreya Agrawal and 19-year-old Arjun Babuta completed the podium in third place, finishing with 432.8 points, while their country-mates Elavenil Valarivan Elavenil (18) and Tejas Krishna Prasad (20) finished fourth with 389.1.
Bhaker and Anmol dominated the event from the very start and enter the final with the highest qualification score and a new junior qualification world record.
They finished with a 5.6 advantage on their closest rivals, China’s Liu Jinyao and Li Xue. (PTI)
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