India’s Skeet Shooter Ganemat Sekhon kept the medal hopes alive for India at the ongoing ISSF World Cup. She finished second at the end of day one of qualifications at the Lusail Shooting Range in Doha on Thursday, 23rd November. Meanwhile Rifle exponents Hriday Hazarika and Elavenil Valarivan finished seventh in the men and women’s categories respectively.
In the women’s skeet Ganemat Sekhon began with three identical rounds of 24/25 to place second behind leader Assem Orynbay of Kazakhstan. Meanwhile, Prithviraj Tondaiman in the men’s trap had two rounds of 46 to begin with and was outside the top six.
Hazarika & Elavenil disappoint
Hazarika made it to the final by finishing eighth with a shot a 629.4 in the men’s 10m air rifle qualification to enter the final. He began the final with 10.6 and aggregated 51.9 after the first five-shot series to be in fifth position.
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Poor scores on the fifth and sixth meant he would slip to seventh after 10 shots. He improved to sixth after his 12th shot. But German Maximillian Ulbrich outgunned him on the 13th and 14th shots as the Indian bowed out.
Tokyo Olympian Elavenil also took the eighth and final qualifying spot in women’s 10m air rifle with a score of 630.8. The Indians who missed out on a top-eight spot on the day were Rudrankksh Patil among the men and Ramita Jindal and Mehuli Ghosh among women.
