ISSF World Cup: Sift Kaur Samra wins bronze medal in ladies’s 50m rifle 3 positions
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India’s Sift Kaur Samra secured a bronze medal within the ladies’s 50m rifle 3 positions on the ISSF World Cup 2025 in Munich. The world file holder shot 453.1 within the ultimate. Norway’s Jeanette Hegg Duestad gained gold.
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Munich: Prime Indian shooter Sift Kaur Samra tackled a powerful area with aplomb to assert the bronze medal within the ladies’s 50m rifle 3 positions occasion on the ISSF World Cup right here on Thursday.
The 23-year-old Samra, who holds the present world file in ladies’s 50 metre rifle three positions occasion which she had set whereas successful the gold medal on the 2022 Asian Video games, shot 453.1 within the eight-player ultimate.
Norway’s Jeanette Hegg Duestad gained the gold medal with 466.9, whereas Emely Jaeggi of Switzerland bagged silver with 464.8.
Within the males’s 10m air rifle competitors, Ankush Jadhav narrowly missed out on the finals and settled for the eleventh place within the {qualifications} with a complete of 631.7 throughout six sequence.
Umamahesh Maddineni ended seventh with 632.3 however was not eligible to enter the ultimate as he was capturing for rating factors solely (RPO). Arjun Babuta was positioned forty third with 629.1, whereas Sandeep Singh was 53rd with 628.3.
Earlier within the day, Emely was positioned ninth within the {qualifications} of the ladies’s 50m rifle 3 positions occasion with 590, however made the ultimate as two markswomen among the many prime eight had been capturing for rating factors.
Samra, who’s from Faridkot, Punjab, was second within the {qualifications} with a complete of 592 throughout the three levels of kneeling, inclined and standing.
She gained a gold medal on the World Cup in Buenos Aires earlier this yr, beginning the season on a rousing observe after a disappointing marketing campaign on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
France’s Agathe Cecile Camille Girard, who additionally shot 592, topped the {qualifications} on the account of getting extra interior 10 (Xs), whereas Switzerland’s Audrey Gogniat was positioned third heading into the finals.
The opposite Indians within the competitors, Ashi Chouksey completed eleventh with 589, whereas Anjum Moudgil ended twenty seventh with 586. Shriyanka Sadangi was 53rd with 582, and Nischal was additional down at sixtieth place.
