Indian shooter, Saurabh Chaudhary won the gold medal in the 10m air pistol event, making the country’s account in the year’s first ISSF World Cup in Cairo on March1. The Asian Games gold medallist shot 16 in the gold medal contest to finish the round whereas Germany’s Michael Schwald shot 6.
Artem Chernousov of Russia won the bronze in the event, whose country’s flag was removed owing to its involvement in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Saurabh, aged 19 years, an Olympian has a Youth Olympic gold medal to his name, was third in the men’s 10m air pistol qualification stage with a total of 584 points, making it through to the elimination as one of the top eight shooters.
He topped the final stage relay 1 scoring 38, making it through to the medal match, which was contested by the last four shooters. He was again topped with a score of 42.5.
Esha Singh, Shri Nivetha and Ruchita Vinerkar are representing India in the 10m air pistol women’s event.
Over 500 shooters from 60 nations are taking part in the Cairo World Cup which has 20 medal sets on offer.
