Doha [Qatar], March 12 (ANI): Trap shooter Prithviraj Tondaiman received a bronze medal on the ISSF Shotgun World Cup 2023 in Doha, Qatar on Saturday. It was India’s first medal on the ongoing ISSF World Cup being held on the Lusail Shooting Complex within the Qatari capital.
Prithviraj Tondaiman was on tempo to go from the four-man medal match to the two-man gold medal spherical, however after lacking three of his closing 5 photographs, he needed to accept bronze with 20/25 factors.
Oguzhan Tuzun, a two-time world champion from Turkey, shot 33/35 to win gold, and Matthew John, a bronze medalist from Great Britain at Tokyo 2020, received silver with a rating of 30/35. Naser Meqlad of Kuwait, a two-time Asian Games winner, was the primary to face elimination within the medal match after lacking two of his first fifteen makes an attempt.
Earlier, Prithviraj Tondaiman topped his semi-final with a rating of twenty-two/25 to make the medal match. The Indian shooter scored 122 to complete sixth within the qualifying spherical.
At the ISSF Shotgun World Championship 2022 final yr, Bhowneesh Mendiratta earned India a quota spot for the Paris 2024 Olympics. He completed qualifying in twenty seventh place with a rating of 120 after 5 rounds.
Of the 118 rivals, Zoravar Singh Sandhu (119) and Kynan Chenai (118) positioned thirty eighth and forty ninth, respectively.
In girls’s lure capturing, Shreyasi Singh, a 2018 Commonwealth Games champion in double lure, shot 118 to qualify for the semi-finals however didn’t make the ultimate 4 with a rating of 21/25.
Kirti Gupta with a rating of 110, ended up in thirty sixth place amongst 62 rivals. Rajeshwari Kumari (107) got here forty sixth whereas Preeti Rajak’s 105 acquired her the fiftieth place.
Penny Smith of Australia beat Zuzana Stefecekova of Slovakia for the gold within the shoot-off whereas Alicia Gough of the USA, who shot 20/25 within the medal match, claimed bronze.
The ISSF Shotgun World Cup 2023 in Doha will conclude on Sunday. (ANI)