Lonato [Italy], July 13 (ANI): Indian shooter Ganemat Sekhon scored 120 within the girls’s skeet qualifying spherical of the ISSF World Cup Shotgun Lonato 2023 to say a brand new nationwide file on Wednesday. Even although she claimed a nationwide file, Ganemat did not win a medal together with all six Indian skeet shooters on the Trap Concaverde Shooting Range in Italy.
Ganemat, who gained a silver medal within the girls’s particular person skeet occasions on the ISSF World Cup in Almaty in May, shot an ideal spherical of 25 however missed out on a spot within the six-woman ultimate as she completed in seventh place. The Indian shooter had two rounds of 23 within the earlier two days which contributed to her early exit on the Paris 2024 Olympics qualifying occasion.
Dania Jo Vizzi of the USA claimed the sixth and ultimate spot with a rating of 121 within the qualifying spherical and she or he went on to win the gold medal by defeating her compatriot Samantha Simonton 54-50 within the ultimate. China’s Jiang Yiting ended up with the bronze medal. The different two Indians within the girls’s skeet discipline, Maheshwari Chauhan and Darshna Rathore shot 114 and 104 to complete thirty second and 58th, respectively. In the lads’s skeet, Anant Jeet Singh Naruka shot 119 for forty eighth place. Tokyo Olympics silver medalist Jesper Hensen of Denmark topped the sector with an ideal shot of 125. Reigning world champion Azmy Mehelba of Egypt and reigning Olympic champion Vincent Hancock of the USA, who took out Rio 2016 champion Gabrielle Rossetti of Italy in a shoot-off, additionally made the finals with scores of 123.
India’s Gurjoat Khangura and two-time Olympian Mairaj Ahmad Khan shot scores of 116 and 112 to finish within the 69th and 96th positions, respectively. India’s pair of Ganemat Sekhon-Anant Jeet Singh Naruka and Gurjoat Khangura-Darshna can be in motion within the combined skeet occasion on Thursday. (ANI)