Heena falls short after good qualifying round in ISSF WC

After two medal-winning efforts, Indian shooters had a disappointing outing at the ISSF World Cup in Changwon, Korea today, with Heena Sidhu missing out on a podium finish after finishing eighth in her event.
Competing in the women's 10-metre air pistol event, Heena qualified for the finals with an impressive second-place finish. But she failed to replicate that in the medal round, finishing at the bottom among the top eight shooters.
After totalling 388 with the help of 9x in the qualifying round, Heena could not manage more than 75.7 in the finals.
Annu Raj Singh and Ruchita Vinerkar could not even qualify for the finals after finishing dismal 14th and 27th respectively.

In the women's 50-metre rifle 3 position, Tejaswini Sawant, Lajja Gauswamy and Meena Kumari failed to make the cut as they finished 18th, 24th and 33rd respectively in the qualifying round.
China's Jie Ren won the gold in Heena's event with a total score of 201.8. The silver went to Serbia's Zorana Arunovic (199.0) and Kim Jangmi (177.8) of Korea bagged the bronze.

London Olympics silver medallist Vijay Kumar, Pemba Tamang and Harpreet Singh will be competing in the qualification stage 2 of the men's 25-metre rapid fire pistol event tomorrow.
Rahi Sarnobat had on Friday scripted history by becoming the first Indian pistol shooter to clinch a gold medal in the ISSF World Cup when she pipped local hope Kyeongae Kim 8-6 in the final of the 25m sports pistol event.

Yesterday, Prakash Nanjappa won a bronze medal in the men's 10m air pistol event. Prakash shot 180.2 points to outdid 2010 World Champion Tomoyuki Matsuda of Japan, who finished fourth with 158.7 points.