Shooting World Cup: Manu Bhaker flops; Suruchi Singh clinches gold

Indian shooter Suruchi Singh secured a golden medal successful the Women's 10m Air Pistol lawsuit astatine the ISSF Shooting World Cup successful Munich connected Friday, outscoring France's Camille Jedrzejewski by 0.2 points with a full of 241.9 points successful a adjacent final.

China's Yao Qianxun claimed the bronze medal with 221.7 points.The 19-year-old's triumph marked her 4th wide golden medal and completed a hat-trick of idiosyncratic golds, pursuing her palmy performances successful Buenos Aires and Lima successful April.Suruchi, from Jhajjar successful Haryana, dominated the last from the opening with an opening circular people of 52.1 and followed it with 101.5 successful the 2nd round. Despite concisely losing her pb during elimination, she recovered powerfully successful the last shots to assertion victory.

In the qualification round, Suruchi scored 588 with 20 interior 10s to unafraid 2nd place. Paris Olympic treble bronze medallist Manu Bhaker missed qualification, finishing 25th with a people of 574-14x. Another Indian competitor, Palak, finished successful 36th presumption with a people of 570-18x. Notably, Suruchi had antecedently defeated Manu successful the Women's 10m Air Pistol lawsuit astatine the ISSF World Cup 2025 Lima successful Peru.

India's medal number astatine the contention reached three, placing them 4th successful the standings.

Olympian Elavenil Valarivan had earlier won bronze successful the Women's 10m Air Rifle connected the opening day.Sift Kaur Samra added different bronze medal for India successful the Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions lawsuit connected Thursday, further expanding her planetary achievements.

China presently leads the medal standings with 5 medals, including 3 golden and 2 bronze. Norway and Individual Neutral Athletes inhabit the 2nd and 3rd positions respectively.