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ISSF World championships: Saurabh fires his way to Jr record

India's teenage Asiad gold medallist Chaudhary breaks his own record in 10m air pistol event at ISSF World Championships in Changwon, Korea

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India's pistol shooting teen champ Saurabh Chaudhary

India's pistol shooting teen champ Saurabh Chaudhary

A couple of weeks after his triumph at the Asian Games, India's Saurabh Chaudhary hunted down yet another gold medal as he won the men's junior 10m air pistol title, even as teammate Arjun Singh Cheema took a bronze medal at the 52nd ISSF World Championships here yesterday.

Saurabh, 16, produced a world record score of 245.5 shattering the previous world record of 243.7 points, a record he had set at the ISSF Junior World Cup on June 26 to finish ahead of South Korean Lim Honjin (243.1) and Arjun (218.0). Hojin had won a silver medal also at this year's ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl, finishing behind Saurabh and his record scores. And yesterday, the result didn't change as the Indian gained the lead after a superb 10.9 on his eighth shot in the first competition stage. From there on, he kept on piling up the advantage over his opponents.

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