Tondaiman wins bronze in International Shooting Sport Federation

New Delhi : India's Prithviraj Tondaiman, won his first individual World Cup stage medal after he finished third in the men's trap competition at the ongoing International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun in Doha, Qatar.

Prithviraj finished with 20 hits from the first 25 targets in the medal match to settle for bronze at the Lusail Shooting Range.

The 40-year-old Turkish athlete Tuzun Oguzhan won gold, after coming through a 14-way shoot-off for the final qualifying spot. He shot 33 targets in the 35-shot medal match as Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Matthew John Coward-Holley won silver with 30 hits to his name.

Prithviraj was fourth overnight after 75 targets on Day One of qualification and shot two rounds of 24 each early on Saturday to post a score of 122.

That ensured a top-eight finish, but he still had to go through a shoot-off to determine qualifying ranks. He finished third in the five-way shoot-off to claim the sixth qualifying spot and get into the first-ranking match. In all, 14-shooters finished on 121 and Tuzun won that shoot-off to claim the eighth and final qualifying spot.Agencies

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