India’s Olympic bronze medal-winner Swapnil Kusale’s personal coach and former India shooter Deepali Deshpande was always confident that her ward would finish in a good position in the final of the 50m rifle 3 positions on Thursday given his “fighting spirit.”  

Kusale kept his composure to score an aggregate of 451.4 in the eight-shooter final and finish third after being placed sixth at one stage. He finished behind China’s Yukun Liu (463.6) and Ukraine’s Serhiy Kulish (461.3).