The pair of Rudrankksh Patil and Arya Borse won the 10m air rifle mixed team silver, while Paris Olympian Arjun Babuta also clinched the second spot in the men’s 10m air rifle event at the ISSF World Cup in Lima, Peru.
The duo of Rudrankksh and Arya went down 11-17 to the Norwegian pair of Jon-Hermann Hegg and Jeanette Hegg Duestad in the gold-medal match.
These were India’s second and third silver medals in the Lima World Cup to go with two gold and a bronze.
Earlier, Rudrankksh and Arya had shot a combined 632.5 to make it to the gold-medal match, finishing behind the table-topping Norwegian pair by 0.1 point.
They could not overturn that supremacy in the final.
The other Indian pair of Babuta and Narmada Nithin shot 630.0 to finish seventh in the 24-team competition.
Indian trap shooters failed to impress on the day.
Pragati Dubey finished best in the women’s trap with a 113, giving her the seventh place. The top-six make the final. Bhavya Tripathi was further down in 12th with 110 while Neeru’s 105 gave her the 18th spot.
In men’s trap, Prithviraj Tondaiman and Zoravar Sandhu finished with poor qualifying scores of 117 and 116 respectively.
In women’s 25m pistol, Manu Bhaker shot 291 (96,99,96) to lie second, while Esha Singh was sixth with a score of 289 after the first duelling round. Simranpreet Kaur Brar shot 286 to be in ninth spot.
The three will come back on Monday, the last day of competition, for the second rapid-fire round and then hopefully the final.
Silver for Babuta
Olympian Babuta clinched the silver medal in the men’s 10m air rifle event while Arya Borse finished a creditable fifth in the women’s 10m air rifle in her first ever final of the World Cup.
In a nail-biting final, Babuta (252.3), who had finished fourth at the Paris Games last year, lost by just 0.1 points to reigning Olympic champion Sheng Lihao of China (252.4).
