Mahit Sandhu Wins 50 M Rifle Prone Gold Medal in World Deaf Shooting Championship 2024
Earlier, she had won gold in the mixed 10m air rifle along with Dhanush Srikanth and silver in the 10m air rifle individual event. She shot 247.4 in the finals, 2.2 more than Hungary's Mira Biatovszki. The Indian shooter qualified for the finals after topping qualification with 617.8.
Mumbai, September 5: India's Mahit Sandhu clinched the gold medal in the women's 50m rifle prone event while Abhinav Deshwal secured silver in the men's 25m pistol, on the fifth day of the second World Deaf Shooting Championship at Hanover, Germany. With those two medals, India increased their tally to 15, including four gold, seven silver and four bronze. This was Sandhu's second gold and overall third medal at the Deaf Shooting Worlds. Dhanush Srikanth Breaks World Records As India Sweeps Men’s Air Rifle Event at Deaf Shooting World Championship 2024.
Earlier, she had won gold in the mixed 10m air rifle along with Dhanush Srikanth and silver in the 10m air rifle individual event. She shot 247.4 in the finals, 2.2 more than Hungary's Mira Biatovszki. The Indian shooter qualified for the finals after topping qualification with 617.8.
The other Indian shooter in the fray, Natasha Joshi, finished seventh in the finals. Deshwal was edged out by Ukraine's Oleksandr Kolodii in the final series by a solitary point. Paris Paralympics 2024: Mona Agarwal, Sidhartha Babu Fail To Qualify for Final in Mixed 50M Rifle Prone SH1 Event.
Both shooters were tied on 37 after the ninth series. In the 10th, Oleksandr shot a perfect five while Deshwal could only manage four to settle for silver.
The other Indian shooters Shubham Vashist and Chetan Sapkal finished fifth and seventh respectively. Deshwal had also bagged silver in 10m pistol individual, mixed and team events.
(This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)