India concludes best ever ISSF WC performance in Munich

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May 31, 2019

7:06AM

India concludes best ever ISSF WC performance in Munich

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In Shooting, India produced their best ever show at the ISSF World Cup with a total tally of five gold medals in Munich, Germany.

India topped the medals tally with five golds and a silver. Second-placed China bagged nine medals - two gold, two silver and five bronze medals.

India gold medallists included Apurvi Chandela in the Women's 10 metre Air Rifle, Rahi Sarnobat in the Women's 25m Pistol and Saurabh Chaudhary in the men's 10m Air Pistol, besides the Mixed Team titles won on the last day today.

The pair of Anjum Moudgil and Divyansh Singh Panwar first won the 10m Air Rifle mixed team gold. Teenage pair of Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary backed them up with the 10m Air Pistol mixed team title.

They rounded off a dominating show by the Indian squad at the year's third International Shooting Sport Federation world cup stage.

In the Mixed Air Rifle, it was an all India gold medal match and Apurvi Chandela and Deepak Kumar landed the country its lone silver, going down to their compatriots 2-16.

In the Air Pistol competition, Manu and Saurabh also topped the 76-team field with a score of 586 and then doing an encore in round two with an even better 591.

World record holder Saurabh shot a 100 in his last series.