ISSF World Cup: Manu Bhaker misses out on a medal after finishing sixth in women’s 25m pistol final

Paris Olympics medallist Manu Bhaker reached the finals of the 25m Pistol event at the ongoing ISSF World Cup here but failed to secure podium finishes as India failed to win a single medal on Wednesday.

Manu lost by one point

Two-time Olympic bronze medallist shooter Manu finished sixth in the eight-shooter final of the 25m pistol event after finishing fifth in the qualifying round with a total score of 588. Bhaker shot 290 in precision and a superb 298 in the rapid fire round to aggregate 588 going into the finals. However, the medal round didn’t go as expected, Manu missed the chance to move further in the final.

Sun Yujie captured gold

It was a hat-trick of gold medals for the 20-year-old Sun Yujie of China as she beat Oh Yejin of Korea 38-36. Sun had won the gold medals in the last two World Cups in Buenos Aires and Lima.

Chain Singh placed seventh

In the men’s 50-metre rifle 3-position event, Olympian Chain Singh made the final with an impressive score of 592 but eventually placed seventh. Jon-Hermann Hegg of Norway won gold, which put the team in second place on the medals table, behind China, which has won the other three gold medals so far.

ISSF World Cup: Results so far

Multiple Asian Games medallist Esha Singh finished 11th with a combined ‘precision’ and ‘rapid fire’ score of 585 and could not make it to the eight-shooter final. The other Indian in the fray Simranpreet Kaur Brar tallied 577 to finish 32nd.

Meanwhile, Paris Olympics bronze medallist Swapnil Kusale and Ankush Jadhav shot 587 and 580 to finish 38th and 67th respectively.

In the men’s air pistol on Tuesday, Varun Tomar had made the final but finished sixth. Thus, India has only the bronze medal so far, won by Elavenil Valarivan in women’s air rifle in the ISSF World Cup.