New Delhi, Mar 5:
India jumped to the top of the pecking order as young Manu Bhaker clinched a gold medal while Ravi Kumar bagged a bronze in the ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Bhaker beat the host country’s Alejandra Zavala, a two-time World Cup Finals winner, with a 10.8 in the last shot of the 24 shot final, to come out on top with a score of 237.5.
Zavala ended at 237.1 while Celine Goberville of France won the bronze with a score of 217.0.
India’s Yashaswini Singh Deswal missed out on a medal, finishing fourth with 196.1.
An 11th standard student, Bhaker, who recently secured a quota place for the 2018 Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games, won a sensational gold to continue India’s surge in the season’s first World Cup.
Earlier, Ravi Kumar won his first World Cup medal- a bronze in the Men’s 10M Air Rifle event.
Ravi had made it to three finals last year, including in the World Cup Finals, without winning a medal.
He shot 226.4 and had to beat compatriot Deepak Kumar in a shoot-off for third and fourth spots in the final. (PTI)
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