ISSF World Cup: India's Divyansh Singh Panwar & Elavenil Valarivan win gold medal

March 22, 2021 4:36 PM

ISSF World Cup: India's Divyansh Singh Panwar & Elavenil Valarivan win gold medal

India's Divyansh Singh Panwar and Elavenil Valarivan won the gold medal on Monday in the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team event at the The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup being held in Delhi.  The Indian duo put on a brilliant display of shooting to beat the Hungarian team of Istvan Peni and Eszter Denes 16-10 to take home the top prize.  USA's Lucas Kozeniesky and Mary Carolynn Tucker finished third, narrowly beating the Polish team of Aneta Stankiewicz and To...

ISSF World Cup Shooting C'ship: India finish at top with 5 gold

September 3, 2019 2:15 PM

ISSF World Cup Shooting C'ship: India finish at top with 5 gold

India finished at the top of the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol Championship in Rio De Janeiro with 5 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals. Indian pair of Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Choudhary of India defeated their compatriot rivals Yashaswini Deswai and Abhishek Verma in the summit clash of 10-Metre Air Pistol mixed team event.  India has now finished as the leading nation in the ISSF Senior World Cup events in 2019 with 16 gold, 4 silver and 2 Bronze medals. Earlier, World number one Apurvi Chandela,...

ISSF World Cup: Saurabh Chaudhary wins 10m Air Pistol gold; beats own World record

May 28, 2019 8:37 AM

ISSF World Cup: Saurabh Chaudhary wins 10m Air Pistol gold; beats own World record

In ISSF shooting World Cup, in Munich Germany, India's  Saurabh Chaudhary has won 10m Air Pistol Gold beating his own World Record. The 17-year old Chaudhary scored 246.3 bettering his previous best of 245 points that was set in New Delhi World Cup Shooting in February this year. Chaudhury has already secured a berth for the Tokyo Olympics. This is India's second Gold in the championship. 

ISSF World Cup: India wins 3 golds, 1 silver

April 29, 2019 7:49 AM

ISSF World Cup: India wins 3 golds, 1 silver

India topped the standings at the International Shooting Sport Federation, ISSF World Cup on the final day in Beijing on Sunday, bagging four medals comprising 3 Gold and a Silver.  In the last edition in New Delhi, India had jointly topped the standings with Hungary. China followed India in the Beijing edition by bagging 2 gold, as many silver and a bronze. For India,  Anjum Moudgil and young Divyansh Singh Panwar started the medal hunt with a gold in the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team competition.  ...

ISSF World Cup: Manu, Saurabh clinch 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team gold

February 27, 2019 5:53 PM

ISSF World Cup: Manu, Saurabh clinch 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team gold

In shooting, the duo of Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker claimed a gold medal for India in 10-metre air pistol mixed team event at the ISSF World Cup in New Delhi on the last day of the competition on Wednesday.  They shot a total of 483.5 points to finish on top of the podium at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range.  Saurabh and Manu had entered the final after equalling the qualification world record.  The Chinese duo of Ranxin Jiang and Bowen Zhang won silver with 477.7 points, while the bronze...

Jitu Rai, Apurvi Chadela, Mehuli Ghosh in fray on day 1 of ISSF World Cup

March 3, 2018 9:46 AM

Jitu Rai, Apurvi Chadela, Mehuli Ghosh in fray on day 1 of ISSF World Cup

Six Indian shooters, including Jitu Rai, Apurvi Chandela and Mehuli Ghosh, will be in fray on the first competition day of the season's first ISSF World Cup at Guadalajara in Mexico today. Two finals are lined up on the opening day of the Combined World Cup where the Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun shooters will compete. The Men's 10 metre Air Pistol will see Jitu, Om Prakash Mitherwal and Shazar Rizvi carry the Indian hopes in the qualification stages, while Apurvi, Mehuli and Anjum...