New Delhi, Oct 29 (PTI) Hosts India finished seventhoverall with one gold, one silver and a bronze, while Italypipped China in the medals tally, as the ISSF World Cup Finalcame to a close here today.
India won through Jitu Rai/Heena Sidhu (gold in mixedteam 10m air pistol) Sangram Dahiya (silver in men's doubletrap) and Amanpreet Singh (bronze in men's 50m pistol). Thiswas India's best ever result in the annual ISSF shootingcentrepiece.
In the ISSF Champion of Champions event, where all medalwinners in the rifle and pistol events could compete for apurse of 5000 euros each, China's Rio 2016 10m air pistolwomen's champion, Mengxue Zhang and Gengcheng Sui, werecrowned Champion of Champions in pistol and riflerespectively.
India's Jitu Rai had won the pistol event last timearound.
On the concluding day's final event, the men's trap,Spain's Alberto Fernandez, six-time world cup gold medallistand bronze medallist in last year's WCF, won gold with a worldrecord score of 48 out of 50 in the final.
Italy's reigning world champion Daniele Resca won silverwith an effort of 46 and his medal was crucial as it helpedItaly beat China in the medals table.
Daniele's silver meant Italy finished with two gold,three silver and one bronze, while China ended with two gold,two silver and five bronze medals.
In the two other medal events of the day, France's RioOlympics bronze medallist Alexis Raynaud won gold in the men's50m rifle 3 positions event, getting the better of young 18-year old Czech Filip Nepejchal 461.7 to 458.5 in the final.
The 20-year-old Hungarian Istvan Peni won bronze with aneffort of 449.1 to round off a good trip with a total of onegold (10m air rifle) and one bronze medal.
In the men's 25m rapid fire pistol, Keith Sanderson ofthe USA won gold over silver winning Frenchman ClementBessaguet. Keith shot 31 out of 40 in the final to Clement's29. Korea's Jong Ho Song shot 24 to claim bronze. PTI AHAH.
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