Indian duo of Yashaswini & Anmol gives a memorable finish to Indian campaign after clinching Gold in the mixed team gold in air pistol in the Junior World Shooting Championship here on Wednesday.
In the mixed team competition which will be a part of Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Yashaswini and Anmol beat Russia 7-4 for the gold.
The duo had earlier topped the semifinals with 239.3 points, two points ahead of Russia, while France beat Korea 7-1 for the third place.
Earlier, in the 17-team competition, in which some of the countries fielded two teams, India was placed third with 478 points, one point behind the leaders, Latvia and Korea, while France was fourth with 477. Russia, Korea, Iran and Czech Republic were the other teams that qualified for the semifinals.
The Indian mixed air rifle team, however, missed the bronze as it was beaten 7-3 by China.
With three gold, two silver and three bronze medals, India placed second in the medals table behind China, which topped with nine gold, four silver and eight bronze from among the 21 countries that won medals.
Anish Bhanwala who won a gold medal at the ISSF Junior World Championship in the 25m Standard Pistol category, creating a junior world record, shines again to clinch a silver at 25M PISTOL MEN JUNIOR category . He ends his campaign with 2 Golds & 2 Silvers each. He is surely a talent to watch for the future.
Another Indian shooter who impressed alot was 20-year-old Yashaswini Singh Deswal who equals the World Record to grab a Gold for her in her respective category.
Overall, the competition was quite impressive for Indian shooters as they finished on 2nd spot & surely shooting will be the India will focus on future events.
The results: Mixed team air pistol: Final: India (Anmol, Yashaswini Singh Deswal) bt Russia (Alexander Petrov, Nadezhda Koloda) 7-4; Third place: France bt Korea 7-1.
Mixed team air rifle: Final: Czech Republic (Filip Nepejchal, Nikola Foistova) bt China (Zhu Yingjie, Liu Yukun) 7-5; Third place: China (Gao Mingwei, Zhang Changhong) bt India (Arjun Babuta, Shreya Bandyopadhyay) 7-3.
Junior women: 25m sports pistol: 1. Cao Lija (Chn) 36 (577); 4. Muskan 24 (578); 16. Chinki Yadav 571; 34. Gauri Sheoran 562.
Team: 1. China 1734 (WRJ); 2. Thailand 1713; 3. India 1711.