New Delhi, April 26: India secured the top position at the ISSF Junior World Cup held in Cairo, Egypt, winning a total of 16 medals, including five gold, six silver, and five bronze. In the men’s 50-meter rifle 3 positions event, Hemant Barman clinched a silver medal, while the trap mixed team event saw Zuhair Khan and Adya Katyal take home a bronze medal.
In the first final of the day, Hemant Barman scored a total of 351.7 in the 50-meter 3-position event, earning him the silver medal. The 18-year-old qualified in seventh place with a score of 578-24x. He was joined in the final by Vedant Nitin Waghmare and Rohit Kanyan, who scored 581 and 580, respectively. In the final, Rohit finished sixth with a score of 311.9, while Vedant placed seventh with 300.5.
Kazakhstan’s Oleg Noskov set a new junior world record with a score of 355.6, winning the gold medal. Uzbekistan’s Nikita Solokov secured the bronze medal with a score of 341.2. Other Indian qualifiers, Manavendra Singh Shekhawat (578-23x), Kushagra Singh Rajawat (576-24x), and Hitesh Srinivasan (574-26x), did not make it to the top eight.
In the final event of the Junior World Cup, Zuhair Khan and Adya Katyal won the bronze medal with a final score of 19. They qualified for the medal round with a score of 137. Despite initially looking poised for silver after the first two series, the duo fell behind in the third series. Adya missed four of her five shots, and Zuhair missed one, resulting in their drop to bronze. Hungary’s Bence Doeboehergi and Anna Nitrai won the gold medal with a new junior world record score of 32 points, while neutral athletes Ramir Nikolev and Ksenia Tatarinova took silver with 25 points.
In the women’s 50-meter rifle prone category, all Indian shooters—Tejal Nathawat, Yugeshwari Bais, Anushka Thakur, and Khwaahish Sharma—were eliminated without winning any medals. The focus now shifts to the ISSF Junior World Championship, the most significant event of the year, scheduled to take place in Suhl, Germany, in June.
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