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Gabala (Azerbaijan), Indian shooters won seven medals, including three gold, on the opening day of the ISSF Junior World Cup for pistol, rifle and shotgun.
Subhankar Pramanik gave India the first gold in the year’s second and final junior World Cup. The Bengal boy shot 613.8, his best performance ever at the international level, to qualify in the sixth position for the final of the 50m rifle prone event.
In the final, he shot 205.5 over 20 shots to edge out Filip Nepejchal of the Czech Republic, who managed 205.2 and took the silver. The bronze went to Dragomir Iordache of Romania. Subhankar, along with teammates Fateh Singh Dhillon and Ajay Nitish, also won a silver in the team event. Sambhaji Patil gave India the second gold when he won the 25m standard pistol event by shooting 562 to easily beat Australians Sergei Evglevski and James Ashmore. Sambhaji then won his second gold in the team event with Gurmeet Singh and Rituraj Singh to take India atop the medal tally. In the year’s first Junior World Cup in May, India had finished fourth with an overall tally of three gold, four silver and three bronze.
