Commonwealth Games gold medallist Anish Bhanwala overwhelmed Egor Ismakov of Russia 29-23 to clinch the gold in 25-metre rapid fire pistol in the Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany, on Wednesday.
It was a superlative performance by Anish as he had earlier topped qualification with 584. However, the Indian team could not clinch a medal, as the third member of the team Harshwardhan Yadav had problems in the 4-second series in the second stage, leading to a below par total of 550.
The Indian team, with Adarsh Singh (574) as the second member, thus missed the gold by five points.
The second string Indian team of Agneya Kaushik, Rajkanwar Sandhu and Udhayveer Sidhu won the bronze, one point ahead of the main Indian team. In fact, it missed the silver by one point to China.
In mixed air rifle, Shreya Agrawal and Yash Vardhan topped qualification, but were beaten to the gold by Iran 17-11.
India stayed on top of the medals table with eight gold, eight silver and four bronze medals. China was in the second place, comfortably ahead of Russia, with six gold, four silver and five bronze.
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