India also secured the Paris 2024 Olympic quota place after Rudraksh Balasaheb Patil stunned a high-quality field to become the world champion of 10 air rifle men on Friday.
Udayveer put up a combined score of 580 in the junior men’s sports pistol after accurate and rapid fire rounds, taking him to the top of the 23-strong field.
Italian Matteo Mastrovalerio was second while Liu Yangpan of China took the bronze with 577. In the standard pistol, he scored 568 in three stages to surpass Yangpan, who this time settled for silver with 567.
India’s Sameer also scored 567 but had to be content with a bronze medal in countback.
After finishing fourth in the qualification round with a score of 581, Isha finished second in her ranking match and made it to the final medal round. In eight series of five rapid fire shots in each final, Isha fired five and then four shots in each of the four rounds, emerging most consistent and winning the gold medal.
She eventually took 29 hits in the medal match to beat China’s Fang Cixuan, which ended with 25. Hungary’s Miriam Jako won the bronze medal. It was her first junior world title, after winning two silver medals at the Lima Junior World Championships last year.
India’s second bronze of the day came from Tejaswini in the junior women’s 25m standard pistol, when she shot 557 behind the Chinese athletes. Maanvi Jain stood fifth with 556 and Payal Khatri with 547 was ranked eighth.
In the day’s two Paris quota events, India’s Shiva Narwal finished eighth in the men’s 10m air pistol. He scored 583 to qualify for the ranking match in sixth place, but could not progress much after that, and was among the first to be eliminated on a score of 147.6.
Naveen missed out on a spot in the top eight after finishing ninth with 582. Two other shooters qualified on the same score but Naveen lost in a low internal 10. Vijayveer Sidhu finished 19th with 579 points.
India also missed out on the women’s 10m air pistol when Rhythm Sangwan finished 17th in the qualification with a score of 576. The final qualifying spot went to 580. Yuvika Tomar finished 25th with a score of 574 and Palak finished 50th with 568.
In other results, Sartaj Tiwana of India finished eighth in the ranking match with a score of 297.7 in the junior men’s 50m rifle three positions event. He had qualified seventh on Friday with a score of 580.
In the Junior Women’s 3P, none of the three contestants from India made it past the qualification stage, with Nischal being the best in 29th and Nikita Kundu finishing 30th. Both made a score of 576. Nupur Kumrawat was ranked 51st with 566. PTI AH AH ATK ATK
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