India’s pistol shooters continued their consistently stellar run to claim the gold medals in both the men’s and women’s 10m air pistol team events on the third competition day of the ISSF World Cup in Delhi on Sunday.
Earlier, India’s Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Deepak Kumar and Pankaj Kumar combined to win the silver medal in the men’s team air rifle event while the women’s team finished fourth.
First, the trio of Yashaswini Singh Deswal, Manu Bhaker and Shri Nivetha won the top prize in the women’s team 10m air pistol event. Then, the team of Saurabh Chaudhary, Abhishek Verma and Shahzar Rizvi replicated this in the men’s event at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range.
On Saturday, the 23-year-old Deswal won the individual gold medal in the women’s 10m air rifle event while Bhaker had won silver. In the men’s individual 10m air pistol final, Chaudhary and Verma claimed the silver and bronze medals respectively.
The Indian women shot 16 in the gold medal…