NEW DELHI: Host India continued dominance of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup, winning two more gold medals on Friday to take their tally to 12 gold, seven silver and six bronze medals for a total of 25 medals won so far.
Seasoned rifle shooters and Tokyo Olympic Games quota holders Tejaswini Sawant and Sanjeev Rajput paired up to win the day's first gold in the 50m rifle 3-position mixed team event. They beat the Ukranian team of Sehriy Kulish and Anna Ilina 31-29 in a closely contested final at Dr. Karni Singh Shooting ranges. Thereafter, the men's 3-position team comprising Chain Singh, Swapnil Kusale and Niraj Kumar bagged gold beating team the USA 47-25 in the final. India also won a silver and bronze medal.
Vijayveer Sidhu went down 1-4 in a shoot-off to decide the gold medal, to Estonia's Peeter Olesk in the men's rapid fire pistol event. Peeter, by virtue of this performance, incidentally, got assured of a quota place for the Olympics. Both Peeter and Vijayveer were tied at 26 hits a piece after the eight allotted series of five shots each.
India's bronze medal came via their second mixed 3-P team of Sunidhi Chauhan and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar. They got the better of the American pair comprising women's air rifle Olympic champion Virginia Thrasher and Timothy Sherry, 31-15 in the bronze medal match. IANS