ISSF World Cup in Baku: Hriday Hazarika wins 10m air rifle silver

BAKU: Hriday Hazarika shot 251.9 in the final of the men’s 10m air rifle event to clinch the silver medal at the ongoing ISSF World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan. Later, Nancy also won the silver medal in the women’s event with a score of 253.3.

The latest podium finishes take India’s medal count to four after Sarabjot Singh-TS Dhivya’s mixed team gold in 10m air pistol and Rhythm Sangwan’s first senior medal - a bronze in 10m air pistol.

This is also, in fact, Hriday and Nancy’s first senior World Cup medal. Hriday, 21, has previously won a junior World Championship medal in 2018 and two junior World Cup medals (gold in Suhl 2018 and bronze in Suhl 2019). The 19-year-old Nancy has two junior Cairo 2022 World Championship medals (gold and bronze).

Hriday had managed to scrape through the qualification round with 630.3 points and a ninth-place finish (effectively seventh because Divyansh Singh Panwar and Arjun Babuta had competed for RPO). However, in the final, he upped his game to finish only below Hungary’s Zalan Pekler (252.4). China’s Sheng Lihao won bronze with a score of 230.5.

Nancy had a similar showing in the qualification round - eighth with 631.6 points.. Han Jiayu (254.0) and Huang Yuting (232.5) of China won the gold and bronze, respectively. Agencies

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