Shooters bag five medals on Day 4

Gabala (Azerbaijan),  India added five more medals, including three gold, on Day 4 to swell their tally to 23 at the ISSF Junior World Cup here today.
India won two team gold medals in the men’s and women’s 25m pistol events, respectively, while the third gold of the day came through Ahnad Jawanda in the individual men’s 25m pistol competition.
India have won a total of nine gold medals in the competition and are ranked second in the medals tally behind Russia.
The day’s only silver came through Gurmeet, who made it an Indian 1-2 in the men’s 25m pistol. Jawanda and Gurmeet had teamed up with Arjun Das for the team gold in the same category.
In the women’s 25m pistol, Chinki Yadav, Gauri Sheoran and Sanjana Sehrawat won the gold medal with a combined score of 1701. Yadav and Sheoran also reached the final of the individual competition. Yadav finished fourth after losing out to Anna Dedova.
Pragati Gupta, Soumya Gupta and Manisha Keer combined to win bronze in the women’s trap team event. In the junior men’s 50m rifle 3 positions event, Subhankar Pramanick, who had earlier won the 50m rifle prone gold, reached the final with a qualifying score of 1139 but had to content with eighth position in the final standings.

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