Published 12:25 IST, September 3rd 2019

Shooting World Cup: Manu Bhaker-Saurabh Chaudhary win gold, India tops

Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary staged a remarkable comeback to claim the mixed 10m air pistol gold, ending India's campaign on a rousing note in the ISSF WC

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Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary std a remarkable comeback to claim gold for mixed 10m air pistol, ending India's campaign on a rousing te at  World Cup. Representing or Indian team at  same event, Yashaswini Deswal and Abhishek Verma won silver. India picked up maximum possible medals on final day of tournament. World number one in Women's 10m air rifle, Apurvi Chandela, had earlier partnered with Deepak Kumar to win India ir fourth gold on concluding day of event. pair won top medal in mixed air rifle event. results ensured an unprecedented finish for country across all four ISSF World Cup sts this year including lone junior world cup.

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Shooting World Cup - India bags medals

Anjum Moudgil and Divyansh Singh Panwar, representing India 2, won bronze as India continued to reach never-before-seen heights in rifle and pistol shooting. pair had previously won two World Cup editions at same event. Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary prevailed over Yashaswini Singh Deswal and Abhishek Verma 17-15 in air pistol final in a nerve-wracking contest. Manu and Saurabh were at various sts of final down 3-9, n 7-13 and n finally 9-15 before winning next four duels straight to st a remarkable come-from-behind win. pair have w won each of four ISSF Mixed Team Air Pistol World Cup golds this year

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winning pair had earlier shot 394 out of 400 in round two of qualification to top eight-team round including a stunning 100 each in final 10-shot series. Yashaswini and Abhishek, both fresh from ir individual gold medal-winning exploits in competition earlier, came in second with 386. Hungary and China 1 were left fighting for bronze, which was won by pair of Pang Wei and Jiang Riaxin of China. Earlier, Apurvi and Deepak blew away Chinese pair of Yang Qian and Yu Haonan 16-6 in a one-sided final. India won 8 of 11 single-shot duels between teams, where combined score of one pair is compared to that of or and higher total awarded two points.

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first to 16 points wins and this is format which will be used in Tokyo 2020 Olympics. After comfortably getting through round one of qualification, pair of Apurvi and Deepak topped board after 20 individual shots in round two, featuring top eight teams from previous round. ir total of 419.1 enabled m to get straight into gold medal match where y found mselves against Chinese pair who had come in second with 418.7.

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India's medal tally

Anjum and Divyansh shot 418.0 to lie fourth and qualified for bronze medal match against Hungarian pair of Eszter Meszaros and Peter Sidi, who shot 418.6 to finish third. Anjum and Divyansh also won ir bronze-medal match against Hungarians with relative ease, chalking out a 16-10 result. India finished tournament at top of medals tally with five gold, two silver, and two bronze. latest exploits also helped India finish on top of all four ISSF Rifle/Pistol World Cup sts this year.

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09:22 IST, September 3rd 2019