Indian shooter creates record at junior world meet

Suhl (Germany) June 24 (IANS) Fifteen-year-old Anish won gold in the men s 25m Standard Pistol as India clinched two medals on the opening day of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Championship (Rifle/Pistol) here on Saturday.

Anish a 15-year old from Haryana finished at the top of the podium with a world record score of 579 which helped India also bag the team silver in the event and took them to second in the overall standings.

Anish s score was a whole seven points clear of second placed German Florian Peter who shot 572 while Ukraine s Pablo Korostylov took the bronze in the event with a score of 570.

Earlier this year Anish had also claimed a gold and a bronze in an international meet in Pilzen Czech Republic.

In the team competition Anish s teammate Anhad Jawanda shot 561 while Sambhaji Zanzan Patil shot 547 -- a combined score of 1678 which got them the team silver.

In the other events of the day India s Shirin Godara shot 615.9 to finish 21st in the Junior Women s 50m Rifle Prone competition.

Prasiddhi Mahant and Ayushi Podder ended 41st and 57th respectively in the same event with scores of 609.8 and 605.4 respectively.

In the Junior Men s 50m Rifle Prone Fateh Singh Dhillon finished 23rd with a score of 617.3 while Subhankar Pramanick shot 615.9 to end at the 29th position.

India s third competitor in the event Syed Araib Pervez was placed 66th with a score of 606.

Norway are leading the medals tally after the opening day with one gold one silver and one bronze medal followed by India on a day when as many as 11 nations got on to the medal charts.

--IANS
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