Showing posts with label Jitu Rai shoots silver in air pistol. Show all posts
Saturday, 25 June 2016
Jitu Rai shoots silver in air pistol
Big showdown silver medallist Jitu Rai secured the silver in air gun, a large portion of a-point behind Felipe Almeida Wu of Brazil, in the shooting World Cup on Saturday.
It was the second award in a World Cup this season for the 28-year-old Jitu, who had won the free gun gold in the principal World Cup in Bangkok.
He has so far won two gold, three silver and one bronze in the World Cups in the most recent three years.
Qualifying with an unassuming score of 580, an aggregate which saw four shooters miss the cut, Jitu drove after 10 shots in the last, before gradually losing his favorable position.
Scores of 9.1 and 9.6 towards the end saw him slip to the second spot, in spite of a reverberating 10.6 on the last endeavor.
Jitu pushed the free gun gold medallist Jin Jongoh of Korea, the two-time World champion who has won five decorations in the last three Olympics, including three gold, to the bronze by 0.5 point.
It was just the third World Cup decoration this season for the Indian shooters.
Mairaj Ahmad Khan had won the silver in skeet in the Rio World Cup separated from the two decorations by Jitu.
In ladies' 25-meter sports gun, overnight pioneer Heena Sidhu caught up her 296 in the accuracy stage with a 286 in the quick discharge area.
Nonetheless, in the elimination rounds, the air gun expert and world record-holder was not able affirm herself.
The two different shooters who had a 582 amid capability, Antoaneta Boneva of Bulgaria and Kim Jangmi of Korea won the gold and bronze in the wake of overcoming shoot-offs in the semifnals.
In men's twofold trap, Ankur Mittal shot 137 to miss the last by one point.
The 24-year-old Ankur, Asian champion in 2014, missed a twofold towards the end of the fifth round, missing out on a merited compartment in the thump out stage after a progression of 28, 29, 26, 28 and 26.
He had shot a profession best 144 in the Munich World Cup two years prior.
The outcomes:
Men: 10m air gun: 1. Felipe Almeida Wu (Bra) 200.0 (580); 2. Jitu Rai 199.5 (580); 3. Jin Jongoh (Kor) 178.8 (586); 28. Omkar Singh 575; 42. Gurpreet Singh 569; MQS: Prakash Nanjappa 563.
Twofold trap: 1. William Chetcuti (Mlt) 28(2) 29 (138); 2. Marco Innocenti (Ita) 28(1) 29 (139); 3. Mo Junjie (Chn) (28) 139; 4. Artem Nekrasov (Rus) 26 (28) 138; 9. Ankur Mittal 137; 14. Sangram Dahiya 135; 15. Mohd. Asab 134; MQS: Sanjay Rathore 130.
Ladies: 25m games gun: 1. Antoaneta Boneva (Bul) 7 (16)5 (582); 2. Anna Korakaki (Gre) 5 (17) 584; 3. Kim Jangmi (Kor) 8 (14) 582; 4. Chen Ying (Chn) 0 (16)2 (581); 8. Heena Sidhu 6 (582); 32. Anisa Sayyed 572; 34. Surabhi Pathak 571. — Sports Bureau
Subscribe to:
Posts
(
Atom
)
