Shooting, Junior World C’ships: Divanshi, Mukesh Nelavalli star as India add five golds to tally
India has so far won 10 gold, one silver and three bronze medals.
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The junior Indian shooting squad won five gold medals on the fourth day of the ISSF Junior World Championship in Lima, Peru, to extend the country’s tally to 14 medals.
India has so far won 10 gold, one silver and three bronze medals.
Divanshi clinched gold in the individual junior women’s 25m pistol event, shooting a score of 35 to pip Italian Cristina Magnani by two points in the final. France’s Heloise Fourre was third.
It was a double-gold for Divanshi on the day as she combined with Tejaswini and Vibhuti Bhatia, to win the junior women’s 25m pistol team gold ahead of Czechia and Germany. Their combined tally being 1711.
Divanshi had a tough road to gold after missing seven of her first 15 targets in the individual final, putting her in sixth position initially. However, she recovered brilliantly, hitting 16 of her next 20 to move up to second with three more series of five shots remaining in the 10-series final.
Magnani who had led from the beginning, found herself tied with Divanshi on 31-hits after the ninth series as the Indian nailed a four when it mattered most, while Cristina missed three. France’s Fourre, who had piped Divanshi to second after the eighth series, had to settle...
