Rahi Sarnobat wins gold at ISSF shooting World Cup

Olympicbound Rahi Sarnobat displayed sensational form to clinch the womens 25m pistol gold medal at the ISSF shooting World Cup here on Monday but teen sensation Manu Bhaker ended seventh in the same eventRahi Sarnobats gold is Indias first in the ongoing edition after the country secured one silver and two bronze medals earlier in the tournamentThe 30yearold Sarnobat fired a final score of 39 after qualifying second with a total of 591 Her stupendous performance in the final included perfect scores in the third fourth fifth and the sixth seriesAfter I got assurance about the gold it was more about technicalities for me in the last few series as I wanted to try out a few things so I was doing that she said about her stellar performanceAlso read Indian womenrsquos 10m air pistol team clinch bronze medalThis competition was absolutely not about performance or medal because I was trying out a few things which I am going to do in the Olympic Games and this is the final competition before thatIt was more about trying out things and finalising every thing before the Olympics for the last time and that was just that she addedNonetheless winning a gold here has given Sarnobat the belief that her preparations are on the right track for the Tokyo GamesI have to keep working on this up to and after the Olympic Games as well she saidThe silver went to Frances Mathilde Lamolle who scored 31 in the final Rio Olympics silvermedallist in the 10m air pistol Russian Vitalina Batsarashkina won bronze with 28 hits bowing out after the ninth fiveshot seriesIn the qualification Sarnobat fired a brilliant 296 in the rapid fire round on Monday Her precision score was an equally impressive 295 on SundayBhaker recorded a total of 588 to qualify third after firing a 296 in the rapid fire round on Monday following an impressive 292 in the precision round on SundayHowever she was eliminated early in the final with a disappointing score of 11 losing a shootoff to Bulgarias Viktoria ChaikaThere was disappointment for India in the womens 50m rifle 3 positions competition as both Tejaswini Sawant and Anjum Moudgil failed to make the finalsSawant ended 20th in qualification with a score of 1168 while Moudgil was further down at 32nd after firing 1162 The top eight shooters from qualification make the final cutEarlier in the tournament Bhaker had teamed up with Saurabh Chaudhary for the 10m air pistol mixed team silverShe had earlier clinched the womens 10m air pistol team bronze with Sarnobat and Yashaswini DeswalBefore that Chaudhary had won the mens 10m air pistol individual bronze medalThis is the last competitive outing for the Olympicbound shooters who will go to Tokyo after their stint hereThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever