Vinita & Mukund pair wins gold

On target: Vinita Bhardwaj and Mukund Agarwal who took the honours in the mixed air rifle category.

On target: Vinita Bhardwaj and Mukund Agarwal who took the honours in the mixed air rifle category.  

World University champion Vinita Bhardwaj and Mukund Agarwal won the gold in mixed air rifle in the International Shooting Competition of Hannover.

The Indian pair beat Germany’s Maran Prediger and Soren Meissner by 0.4 point for the gold. The duo had topped qualification with 832.2 points. Vinita was best in qualification with 420.5 points, as she had a series of 104.8, 104.5, 106.1 and 105.1.

The results:

Mixed air rifle: 1. India (Vinita Bhardwaj, Mukund Agarwwal) 490.7 (832.2); 2. Germany 490.3 (824.3); 3. Kazakhstan 427.0 (830.9).

Men: 10m air pistol: 1. Amanpreet Singh 238.2 (573); 2. Gaudenic Pairoux (Fra) 236.8 (577); 3. Mathieu Perie (Fra) 216.3 (580); 5. Karnav Bishnoi 175.6 (572); 6. Deepak Sharma 156.0 (575).

25m rapid fire pistol: 1. Arpit Goel 27 (566); 2. Sam Gowin (GBr) 23 (567); 3. Rushiraj Barot 19 (567); 5. Gurpreet Singh 11 (569).

25m standard pistol: 1. Gurpreet Singh 572; 2. Amanpreet Singh 571; 3. Ruslan Lunev (Aze) 569; 4. Arpit Goel 569; 7. Ankush Bhardwaj 558.

50m free pistol: 1. Sander Nooij (Ned) 233.8; 2. Amanpreet Singh 226.4 (549); 3. Patrick Meyer (Ger) 207.6 (549); 5. Deepak Sharma 168.1 (544); 6. Parveen Kumar 150.1 (551).

50m rifle 3-position: 1. Yuriy Yurkov (Kaz) 459.8 (1174); 2. Gagan Narang 453.7 (1162); 3. Marcus Madsen (Swe) 441.8 (1165).

Women: 50m rifle 3-position: 1. Lajja Gauwami 451.8 (1165); 2. Annika Sihvonen (Fin) 451.6 (1157); 3. Alexandra Malinovskaya (Kaz) 439.4 (1163).

50m rifle prone: 1. Alexandra Malinovskaya (Kaz) 623.7; 2. Annika Sihvonen (Fin) 621.9; 3. Paulina Frilander-Soini (Fin) 618.6; 7. Lajja Gauswami 617.2.