Debutant Sonam Maskar bagged a silver medal for India within the ladies’s 10m air rifle occasion of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup right here. Competing in her maiden World Cup, Sonam shot 252.1 within the eight-woman last, ending 0.9 behind Germany’s Anna Janssen on the Egypt International Olympic City Shooting vary late on Sunday. Poland’s Aneta Stankiewicz took house the bronze. Earlier, Divyansh Singh Panwar had struck gold within the males’s occasion with a world file rating within the last.

India is now firmly on the highest of the season-opening World Cup stage with two gold and three silver medals of their kitty after three days of competitors.

Two Indians, Sonam and Nancy had made the ultimate after taking pictures scores of 632.7 and 633.1 to complete the 60-shot qualification spherical in fifth and fourth spots respectively.

Sonam, nevertheless, was strongest off the blocks within the 24-shot last, her 53.0 within the first five-shot sequence giving her the early lead. It was fairly an unprecedented last, with the scores huddled so shut to one another that on the finish of 10 pictures, the distinction between the chief Sonam and Nancy, who was positioned eighth at that stage, was simply 0.8.

Anna took over the lead from Sonam after the 14th shot as, regardless of a ten.9 once more from Sonam on the thirteenth, Anna’s constant excessive 10s bore fruit.

At one stage it did look that it will be a double podium for India, however Poland’s Stankiewicz pipped Nancy for bronze, whereas Sonam couldn’t meet up with the skilled Janssen.

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