ISSF Junior World Cup 2023: Abhinav Shaw-Gautami Bhanot bags gold medal in 10m air rifle mixed team

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Abhinav Shaw and Gautami Bhanot won the 10m air rifle mixed team gold medal during the ISSF Junior World Championships 2023 in the Korean city Changwon on Monday. They defeated France's Oceanne Muller and Romain Aufrere 17-13 in the gold medal match.

The gold medal was India's third in the ISSF Junior World Championships 2023 and came on Day 2 of the competition. The medal took India to third place with a silver and two bronze medals also in the tally. China leads the tally with the same number of gold and bronze as India, but with an additional silver to show for their efforts.

India also bagged a bronze in the second medal event of the day, the 10m air pistol mixed team event, when Abhinav Choudhury and Sainyam, who had won gold in the air pistol women's individual competition on Sunday, got the better of Korea's Kim Juri and Kim Kanghyun 17-11, in the bronze-medal match.

Abhinav and Gautami had earlier shot 627.4 in the qualification to finish second amongst 35 teams to qualify for the gold medal match-up. Oceanne and Romain had topped the qualification with 632.4, but the Indian pair reversed the order in the final with some gritty shooting. They were down 0-4 initially but showed tremendous resolve to pull through in the end.

The pair of Abhinav Choudhary and Sainyam shot a combined 574 in qualification to finish fourth. That gave them a shot at bronze, where they duly obliged. Day three has four finals lined up, namely the men's and women's 10m air rifle finals and the men's and women's skeet final.

With inputs from PTI