Divanshi shot at her best in the final to clinch the gold in the 25-metre sports pistol event of the World junior shooting championship in Lima, Peru.
Divanshi shot 35 in the final to beat Cristina Magnani of Italy by two points. She had qualified for the final in the fifth place with 577.
Along with Tejaswani and Vibhuti Bhatia, Divanshi also won the team gold to boost the medals tally for India.
In fact, the 25-metre sports pistol event contributed two more gold medals, as Mukesh Nelavalli won the junior men’s individual gold, and the team gold along with Suraj Sharma and Padhyumn Singh.
Mukesh Nelavalli, the gold medallist in junior men’s sports pistol in the World Junior championship in Lima, Peru. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
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In the 50-metre rifle 3-position event, Shourya Saini finished seventh in the final, but won the team gold along with Vedant Waghmare and Parikshit Singh Brar.
Thus India took its tally to 10 gold, one silver and three bronze medals.
USA was second with two gold, four silver and four bronze, ahead of Italy and China, which also had two gold medals each.
The results:
Junior men: 25m sports pistol: 1. Mukesh Nelavalli 585; 2. Suraj Sharma 583; 3. Vladyslav Medushevskyi (Ukr) 580: 10. Raajwardan Paatil 573; 16. Parth Rana 566; 22. Pradhyumn Singh 561.
Team: 1. India 1729; 2. Poland 1726; 3. Italy 1712.
50m rifle 3 position: 1. Braden Peiser (USA) 460.3 (588); 2. Victor Lindgren (Swe) 460.2 (586); 3. Jens Oestli (Nor) 447.4 (585); 7.
Shourya Saini 400.8 (583); 9. Vedant Waghmare 583; 14. Parikshit Brar 582.
Team: 1. India 1753 (EWR); 2. Norway 1748; 3. Sweden 1746.
Junior women;
25m sports pistol: 1. Divanshi 35 (577); 2. Cristina Magnani (Ita) 33 (580); 3. Heloise Fourre (Fra) 30 (578); 13. Tejaswani 569; 22.
Vibhuti Bhatia 565.
Team: 1. India 1711; 2. Czech Republic 1696 (38x); 3. Germany 1696 (31x).
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