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New Delhi
India’s Apurvi Chandela continued her golden run of form, winning the women’s 10m air rifle gold medal after a closely-fought contest at the year’s third ISSF World Cup rifle/pistol stage in Munich today.
The shooter from Jaipur shot a score of 251 in the final to edge out Wang Luyao of China, who shot 250.8. Another Chinese shooter, Xu Hong, finished third with a score of 229.4 in the final. It was a neck-and-neck battle between Apurvi and Wang till the end. The Indian was just 0.1 ahead when she shot a 10.4 to Wang’s 10.3 to clinch the issue.This was Apurvi’s second ISSF World Cup gold of the year — she had won the gold in New Delhi in February with a world record score. In the second leg, in Beijing, she had finished fourth.
Another Indian in the fray today, Elavenil Valarivan, also made it to the finals but narrowly missed out on a medal, finishing fourth. She lost to Xu by just 0.1.
Earlier, all three Indians in the 149-strong qualifying field had a solid start with Apurvi and Elavenil taking the top-two spots with scores of 633 and 632.7, respectively.
Anjum Moudgil shot 628.9 to finish in 11th place, just 1.1 points outside the final qualifying score.The Indians had a good day at other events as well. After the first round of qualifying in the women’s 25m pistol, Asian Games champion Rahi Sarnobat stood in second position with a score of 294. Manu Bhaker shot 289 and was in the 24th spot.
