Indian pistol shooter Sameer wins Silver medal at ISSF World Championship

Cairo: Indian pistol shooter Sameer won a Silver in the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men Junior event of International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championship in Cairo, Egypt yesterday.

Sonipat's shooter got 23 hits in the medal match, finishing behind Wang Shiwen of China, who won gold with 25. Liu Yangpan won bronze in a match which pitted three Chinese against one Indian.

Sameer had shot 573 in qualification to finish fourth and then had 10 hits to Yangpan's 12 in the ranking round to make it to the medal round.

The women's Air Pistol team's gold medal match will be held today.



Esha Singh, Shikha Narwal and Varsha Singh topped their first qualification stage with a score of 855 and then came second to China's Wang Siyu, Zhao Nan and Shen Yiyao with a score of 576 in stage two, to make the title round.

Earlier on Sunday, the Men's 10m Air Rifle team of Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil, Kiran Ankush Jadhav and Arjun Babuta also won India's fifth gold of the championships.

India have won so far total 14 medals, including five gold, three silver and six bronze medals in the ongoing ISSF Championship. They remain second in the standings behind China.