Indian shooters placed on a disappointing present within the ISSF Shotgun World Cup 2023 in Larnaca, Cyprus, which concluded on Sunday.

None of the Indians managed to succeed in the finals or the rating rounds in any of the skeet and entice shooting occasions.

In the lads’s skeet, Olympian Angad Vir Singh Bajwa completed a disappointing thirty ninth with 116 factors within the qualifying spherical whereas Abhay Singh Sekhon ranked 89th with 108 factors. Man Singh completed 107th with 105 factors. None made the rating spherical.  

In the ladies’s skeet, India’s Raiza Dhillon did not progress past the qualification stage after ending seventeenth with 114 factors whereas Parinaaz Dhaliwal (108 factors) and Areeba Khan (105 factors) completed fortieth and forty ninth, respectively.

The skeet combined crew occasion, too, noticed Indian shooters fail to progress past the qualifiers. The pair of Angad Vir Singh Bajwa and Areeba Khan scored a mixed complete of 131 factors to complete sixteenth. The different India pair of Man Singh and Raiza Dhillon had been ranked twenty second with a complete of 125.

In the entice males’s occasion, Lakshay scored 114 factors to complete fiftieth and was the best-ranked Indian within the qualification spherical. Olympian Prithviraj Tondaiman (110 factors), Bakhtyaruddin Mohamadmuzahid Malek (106 factors) and Arya Vansh Tyagi (104) did not qualify after ending 79th, 106th and 114th, respectively. 

Five Indian shooters participated within the ladies’s entice occasion.

Sabeera Haris ranked twentieth in qualifying with 108 factors whereas Manisha Keer (106 factors) and Shagun Chowdhary completed twenty sixth and forty second. Kiran ranked nineteenth with 108 factors and Kirti Gupta, who completed twenty seventh, was solely taking part for rating factors.

In the entice combined crew occasion, Lakshay Sheoran and Manisha Keer shot 132 to complete thirteenth within the 23-team line-up. Bakhtyauddin Malek and Sabeera Haris, the opposite Indian crew in fray, had been twentieth with a rating of 122.

India have to date gained one 2024 Paris Olympics quota within the shotgun occasions when Bhowneesh Mendiratta completed fourth on the earth championships in Croatia final 12 months.

A complete of 16 Indian shooters competed on the Cyprus meet.

The subsequent ISSF Shotgun World Cup is in Almaty, Kazakhstan from May 16 to 25.