New Delhi, Sep 20, 2016: Rushiraj Barot, provided the perfect icing on the cake in the last final of day three of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup, ongoing at Gabala, Azerbaijan, when he struck Gold in the Junior Men’s 25M Rapid Fire Pistol event. The 19-year old Indian, who qualified for the six-man final in fifth position with a score of 556 in qualifying, edged out Lukas Skoumal of the Czech Republic 25-23, to record his first triumph at the Junior World Cup stage. Rushiraj had finished ninth in the same event in the first Junior World Cup of the year, held in Suhl, Germany, in May. Sergei Evglevski of Australia won the Bronze.
India picked up four more medals on the day other than Rushiraj’s effort, including one more Gold, to sit firmly in second place on the medal table winning six Golds, four Silvers and eight Bronze medals for a total of 18 medals so far. Russia are on top of the medal table with 10 Golds for a total of 21 medals.
Earlier in the day Pratik Borse, Arjun Babuta and Prashant won the Team Gold in the 10M Air Rifle event with a combined score of 1849.9. The team from Singapore won Silver logging a total of 1847 while Japan won the Bronze with a total score of 1846.8. Both Arjun and Pratik, also qualified for the individual finals where Arjun Babuta won the Bronze medal. Rising Czech talent Filip Nepejchal, who had also won the senior World Cup Gold in the event in Baku earlier this yea,r won the Gold with his last shot, ahead of Japan’s Atsushi Shimada.
In the Junior Men’s 50M Pistol, Anmol notched up another medal in the competition when he teamed up with Nishant Bhardwaj and Arjun Das to win the Team Silver medal. Their combined score of 1600 was under team Russia’s Gold medal score of 1640. In the Junior Women’s 10m Air Rifle, Dilreen Gill, Geetaksmi Dixit and Aashi Rastogi helped India bag another Team Bronze.
There are two more competition days left for the ISSF Junior World Cup to conclude