Shooter Anjum Moudgil wins silver in Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions(3P) in the ongoing ISSF Shooting World Cup 2018 in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Day six initiated windy conditions which is not an ideal situation for a shooter. On the other hand, Anjum shot brilliantly to finish behind China’s Ruijiao Pei 455.4 to 454.2 after the 45-shot final. China’s Ting Sun claimed Bronze, finishing with a score of 442.2.
This was India’s eighth medal of the competition and the first silver after having won three Golds and four Bronze medals already, for their best ISSF World Cup performance by far, till date.
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Anjum remained in medal contention from the first competition shot of the final and at the end of the 15-shot kneeling position stood third behind China’s Ruijiao and Slovakia’s Ziva Dvorsak. She pulled into the lead after the second 5-shot prone position series, which followed the kneeling position and was 0.9 points clear of German world number one Jolyn Beer at the end of it.
After the 15-shot prone series she was still in the lead however after the 10th shot of the last standing series when the first two finalists out of the eight were eliminated, Anjum had gone down to fourth position.
An impressive 10.8 in the 41st shot took her up to second and she consolidated that position finishing with scores of 10.2, 10.1, 9.5 and 10.2 to secure a silver.
In the qualification round, Anjum shot 399 out of 400 to score a combined 1170 and sail through to the eight woman final in second place behind China’s Ruijiao Pei who shot a qualification world record score of 1178.
Other Indian in the contention was Gaayathri, who was in contention of making in into the finals after the kneeling and prone rounds but a 371 out of 400 in the standing round meant that she would have to be content with a 15th place finish with a total of 1153.
Former prone World Champion Tejaswini Sawant also shot the same score but finished a spot behind Gaayathri because of three less inner 10s.
In the Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol 15-year old Anish Bhanwala, failed to qualify for the finals. Anish ended with 578, the same score as sixth place qualifier Zhaonan Hao of China, but with one lesser 10 than the Chinese. Neeraj Kumar scored 569 and finished on 13th place.
