Sift Kaur Samra Wins India’s First Gold at Issf Shooting World Cup, Esha Singh Bags Silver

Indian Shooter Sift Kaur Samra Produced A SENSATIONAL COME-From-Behind Performance to Win HER FIRST Individual ISSF World Cup Gold in the Women’s 50M Rifle 3 -ers Final, WHILE ESHIN SINGH GAGED Second Individual World Cup Silver in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The 23-year-old sift from Faridkot Thus Earned India its first gold of the season-opening world cup stage event at the tiro federal argentino de buenos aires aires aires aires aires The world record holder was a huge 7.2 points behind anita mangold of Germany after 15-shots in the first kneeling position. However, she staged a dream comeback in the second prone and final standing positions to win by a canter in the end.

Sift Finished With 458.6 Points at the End of the 45-Shot Final, While Mangold Ended 3.3 Points Behind on 455.3.

Junior World Championship Medallist Arina Altukhova of Kazakhstan was Third, Bowing out after the 44th Shot with a Tally of 445.9.

India Now has three medals – a gold, a silver and a bronze, but a bronze, in the men’s 3p by chain singh – – in the competition.

Sensational sift

Sift Did Extremely Well to Qualify in Top Spot with a Strong 590, When the Likes of Reigning Olympic Champion Chira Leone and Former Olympic Champic Champion Nina Christen, Both from Switzer Top eight.

A host of olympic medallists like Alexandria le of Kazakhstan and Mary Tucker of the Us, also Cold Not Cross the Qualifying Hurdle.

Competing in a Stellar Field, Sift Belt Not Penetrate the 10-Ring to Begin with and Ended The Kneeling Position Almost Out of Reckoning. She then Found Her Rhythm in Her Favorite Prone Position and by the end of it, brough down with the Leader, Now Nele Stark, to about 4.3, but still remained in eighth place.

A Classy 52.3 in the first series of five standing shoots when all struggled, Saw Her Shoot-up to Joint Third and She Never LOKED Back from there.

A STEADY Second Series of 51.2 Saw Her take the lead for the first time and as the Leaderboard Shuffled Performance.

Esha Bags Silver

Air Pistol mixed Team World Champion Esha Tallied 35 in the Women’s 25m Pistol Final to Finish Behind China’s Sun Yujie, Who WON GOLD with 38 Hits AFTER the 10th and Final Five-Shot Series.

Sun’s Compatriot Feng Sixuan Won Bronze. Double Olympic Medallist Manu Bhaker, Who also made the final, Finished Sixth Eventually.

Indian Shooters Had to First Qualify for the Final-Eighted Early on Saturday Morning, and Manu, Who was Fourth Overnight, Returned a Fine 294 in the second rapid-fire round to Qualify in third spot, white Total of 585.

The shooter who piped manu to a third medal at the paris olympics, Hungarian Veronika Major, Topped With 587.

Esha Too Shot Exceedingly Well, A 294 in Rapid-Fire Giving Her a Total of 579, just enough to ensure two Indians in the final. Simranpreet Kaur Brar, The Third Indian in Contection, Had a Tough Opening Rapid-Fire Series to Miss Out With 576.

Manu was also the Stronger at the Start of the Final, A Perfect five in the third series, moving her up to the joint lead with the two chinese sun and feng. Esha Came into Her Own From The Third Series, A Round of Four Hits Moving Her Up to Joint Fourth from Seventh.

WHAT FOLLOWED was Simply Stunning from the Hyderabad Girl as She Shot Superbly in the fifth, Sixth and Seventh Series to Surge to Surge, Just One Behind Sun.

As heavyweights like tien chia-chaine of chinese taipi, Doreen vennekamp of Germany and manu falterred, it was betteren sun and esha and the former finished Stronger to Claim a deserving gold. Feng overcame a three-wait-off to claim another podium for the chinese.

Skeet challenge ends

India’s Challenge in the men’s and women’s skeet competitions was snuffed out at the quality stage. Raiza Dhillon Shot 116 to Finish 11th in Women’s Skeet While Ganemat Sekhon (114) and Darshna Rathore (112) Finished 14ths 17th Respected.

In the men’s skeet. Anant Jeet Singh Naruka Secure the Best Position Among Indians when he Finished 20th on a Score of 116. Bhavtegh gill was a spot below on the same Scient Whilel Gurjoat khangura Finished 22nd A Talli of 115.

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