New Delhi, Sep 19,2016: The juniorIndia Shooting squad, continued their medal winning spree at the InternationalShooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup, bagging 13 medals in all atthe end of competition day two at the Gabala Shooting Cup in Azerbaijan. Afterpicking up seven medals including three Golds to top the medal table at the endof day one, India picked up six more medals on day two, including one Gold, twoSilvers and three Bronze medals to lie second behind Russia in the medal tally.India’s only Gold medal of the day came in the Junior Women’s 10M Air Pistolevent, when Yashaswini Singh Deswal, Malaika Goel and Harshada Nithave combinedfor a total score of 1122 to finish way ahead of second placed Turkey’s scoreof 1104. Uzbekistan won the Team Bronze shooting a total of 1086 in the event.
Daytwo however, started with a Team Silver for India, when the trio of GauravRana, Hemendra Kushwah and Saurabh Chaudhary came second in the Junior Men’s10M Air Pistol event. Then Anmol, won an individual Silver in the event, whenhe finished behind Gold medalist Artem Chernousov of Russia in the final. Anmolwas among three Indians who had qualified for the finals, where after a relativelypoor start, he shot a great second and fifth series, while also finishingstrongly to claim second place with a final round score of 197.5 while theRussian shot 199.7. Another Russian, Evgeniu Borovoi bagged the Bronze with a scoreof 175.8.
HemendraKushwah finished seventh while Gaurav could not reproduce his qualifying formand ended eighth.
TwoIndians, Gaayathri Nithyanadam and Dilreen Gill had qualified for the finals ofthe Junior Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions event. Earlier Gaayathri had won theTeam Bronze in the event along with Sonika and Aditi Singh. Gaayathri then hadan up and down final to eventually settle for an individual Bronze behindNikola Foistova of the Czech Republic who won Gold and Olga Efimova of Russiawho won Silver.
Gaayathri’seventual final round score was 438.9, while Nikola shot 451.5 and Olga 450.6. DilreenGill, the second Indian in the final, finished sixth with a score of 406.3.
ThreeIndians reached the final in the Junior Women’s 10M Air Pistol which had helpedthem bag the Team Gold in the event. In the individual final, at the firstelimination point, which is after eight shots, Malaika was lying fourth,Yashaswani fifth and Harshada had had a brilliant six shot series to pull up tofourth position after a poor start. Then after being in Silver medal positionafter the 11th shot, Harshada posted a string of low scores to endher campaign in fourth place. Margarita Lomova of Russia, won the Gold, AnnaDedova of the Czech Republic won Silver and Afaf Elhodod of Egypt won theBronze.
Yashaswiniand Malaika finished sixth and seventh respectively. The last medal of the daywas a Team Bronze, won by the Junior Men’s Skeet Team comprising of Anant JeetSingh Naruka, Sukhbir Singh Harika andHamza Sheikh who logged a total of 337 points to finish behind the Russian Teamwho won Gold (360) and the Chinese Team which won Silver (339).