Baku [Azerbaijan], May 13 (ANI): Hriday Hazarika and Nancy, two younger Indian shooters, gained silver medals on Friday within the males’s and ladies’s 10m air rifle competitions on the ongoing ISSF World Cup 2023 for rifle and pistol shooters in Baku, Azerbaijan on Friday.
For Hriday Hazarika, 21, and Nancy, 19, it was their first-ever ISSF World Cup medal, as per Olympics.com.
Hriday Hazarika gained the person gold medal on the 2018 Junior World Championships in Changwon. He additionally gained the gold medal on the 2018 Junior ISSF World Cup in Suhl and the bronze medal on the 2019 Junior ISSF World Cup in Suhl.
In the meantime, Nancy competed for the ladies’s rifle group in Cairo within the 2022 Junior World Championships, the place they took first place and gained gold. At the identical contest, she took residence a bronze medal for the blended group.
Zalan Pekler of Hungary, the winner of the Youth Olympic blended group competitors with a rating of 252.4, was narrowly forward of Hriday Hazarika, who improved his efficiency within the remaining to attain 251.9. Sheng Lihao of China, who positioned second in Tokyo 2020, took residence bronze with a rating of 230.5.
With scores of 628.8 and 628.1, respectively, the present world champion Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil and Tushar Shahu Mane positioned twenty third and twenty eighth.
Later on within the day, Nancy, who positioned eighth within the qualification spherical with a rating of 631.6, nearly made it to the ultimate of the ladies’s 10m air rifle occasion.
In the ultimate, she too hit her stride and earned a silver medal with a rating of 253.3. Jiayu Han, a younger Chinese shooter, took residence the gold medal with a rating of 254, whereas Yuting Huang, a two-time world championship gold medalist, got here in third with 232.5.
Elavenil Valarivan (628.2), Ramita (631.4), Tilottama Sen (629.6), and Narmada Nithin (627.4) have been unable to advance to the eight-woman remaining.
India now has 4 medals total within the ISSF World Cup because of the 2 victories on Friday. On Thursday, Sarabjot Singh and Divya TS gained a gold medal within the blended group 10m air pistol competitors, and 19-year-old Rhythm Sangwan took residence the bronze within the girls’s 10m air pistol competitors.
The Baku meet is the penultimate stage of the ISSF World Cup for rifle and pistol shooters.
Before the ISSF World Championships in Doha, Qatar, in November, the ultimate stage will happen in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
A 34-person Indian squad will compete within the ISSF World Cup in Baku in 2023. The occasion’s conclusion is May 14. (ANI)