Bhaker-Foroughi pair wins Air Pistol Mixed Team gold in President's Cup
Wroclaw (Poland)
06-November-2021
India's woman pistol ace Manu Bhaker and Irans reigning Olympic champion Javad Foroughi, won the 10m air pistol mixed team gold at the ongoing ISSF President's Cup Rifle/Pistol here.
Manu and Javad were placed third in qualification with a combined 582/600 to qualify for the first semifinal where they topped the field of four pairs to make it to the final. Lamolle and Artem came through by winning the second semifinal.
Among the other Indians in the field, Abhishek Verma paired with Ukranian Olena Kostevych to finish sixth, while the pairing of Saurabh Chaudhary and Swiss Heidi Gerber Diethelm also made it among the top-eight semifinalists to finish seventh.
Yashaswini Deswal, the fourth Indian in the fray, who was paired with Slovakian Juraj Tuzinsky, ended 10th among the 12 teams in the competition.
International Mixed Teams were formed by the ISSF randomly in accordance with the draw. In the day's other medal event, China's Lihao Sheng and Romania's Laura-Georgeta Ilie won the 10m air rifle mixed team competition.
The inaugural ISSF President's Cup is a rechristened version of the ISSF World Cup Finals, where the year's top-12 athletes according to world ranking are invited to determine the best individual athletes of the year in the respective Olympic events. Individual winners will be awarded 'The Golden Target' along with prize money.
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Cash awards will also be awarded to all athletes in the individual competitions.
Saturday, day three of competitions, has the first of four individual finals on schedule. Indian interests lie in the men's and women's 10m air pistol competitions where Manu has made it to the semifinals along with both Saurabh and Abhishek in the men's competition - IANS
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