Olympian Anantjeet Singh Naruka won the bronze medal in the men’s skeet event while Vivaan Kapoor took the silver medal home in men’s trap at the ISSF World Cup Final in Karni Singh Shooting Range, New Delhi on Thursday.
The duo’s performance doubled India’s medal count to four as they finished ninth in the standings with two silver and two bronze medals, even as China topped the tally with five golds and three bronze medals in their kitty. Seven other nations, Italy, Germany, France, Hungary, Denmark, San Marino, and the USA, won a gold each with Italy finishing second with three silvers and a bronze and Germany third with two silvers to add to their lone gold.
Vivaan’s biggest medal till date
Vivaan Kapoor took aim in the final event of the concluding day, the men’s trap final, in a field that featured at least two Olympic champions, the Paris Olympic silver medallist and a former world champion. That did not fetter him however as he shot like a man possessed in the 50-shot final, eventually finishing second with 44-hits as China’s Qi Ying, the Paris silver medallist, took gold with 47. Turkiye’s Tolga Tuncer won bronze.
Anantjeet Singh Naruka continues to grow
Anantjeet Singh Naruka’s stock as India’s number one men’s skeet shooter has been growing since his famous silver at the Asian Games in Hangzhou. Since then the youngster went to his first Olympics in Paris and yet again famously missed the Skeet Mixed Team bronze partnering Maheshwari Chauhan, finishing fourth.
An individual ISSF medal was a matter of time and it happened on the day at home in India, as he overcame a wobble (two misses in the first 10) at the start of the 60-shot men’s skeet final to finish with 43 hits out of 50, behind the Italian duo of Tammaro Cassandro (gold with 57 hits) and double Olympic champion Gabriele Rossetti (silver with 56 hits).
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