Indian shooters add two more medals at ISSF Junior Cup

Shooter Akhil Sheoran settled for India's fifth silver medal in the second ISSF Junior Cup narrowly losing the gold medal shoot-off to Switzerland's Christoph Duerr in the 50m Rifle 3 Positions event here on Tuesday.

Both Christoph and Akhil finished with a score of 454.3, before the Swiss scored 10.4 in the shoot-off to Akhil's 10.0, according to a release. Italy's Marco Suppini won the bronze medal, finishing with a score of 439.5.

Meanwhile, the Indian women's team, comprising Gauri Sheoran, Shreya Gawande and Chinki Yadav, bagged the bronze medal in the 25m Pistol for the country's 11th medal in the competition.

The Indian troika shot a combined score of 1719 to finish behind the gold medal winning Russian team and the silver medal winning team from South Korea. Both Russia and Korea finished with identical scores of 1726 in the final, but Russia got more inner 10s than the Korean team.

Shivam Shukla, who has already won two gold medals and one silver medal in the competition was in line for another medal in the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol, while Gauri also reached the final of the women's 25m Pistol event.