Abhishek Verma and Saurabh Chaudhary win the Gold and Bronze medal respectively in 10m Air Pistol shooting event in Brazil. The ISSF World Cup 2019 is taking place at Rio De Janerio and has started from Aug 26, 2019, and will end on Sep 3, 2019. Let us see below the feats achieved by Indian shooters in ISSF World Cup 2019. Shooter Elavenil Valarivan Wins Gold at ISSF World Cup 2019; Becomes the third Indian to Achieve the Feat.

Abhishek Verma finished with the score of 244.2 in the final, while Saurabh Chaudhary ended with 221.9 in 10m Air Pistol 8 man final event. The silver medal went to Turkey's Ismail Keles, whose total score was 243.1. Just a day before this, Elavenil Valarivan from India won Gold Medal at the 10m Air Rifle Women’s Final at the 2019 ISSF World Cup. The silver medal was won by Seonaid Mcintosh from Great Britain. While the bronze was won bagged by Ying-Shin Lin from Chinese Taipei. Total of 541 athletes from 72 nations has participated in this World Cup.

Indians Shines at Shooting World Cup in Brazil 

Abhishek Verma with Gold and Saurabh Chaudhary with Bronze 

The participants in the ISSF World Cup 2019 is not only competing for medals but for the 16 Quota places for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in each of the 8 individual events. Indian shooter Sanjeev Rajput also bagged a silver in the men's 50m rifle.

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