India’s Jitu Rai wins Gold at shooting world cup. On March 4 Jitu beat a strong field to win gold in the men’s 50m pistol event shooting world cup on Friday.
Rai beat former world and Olympic champion Pang Wei and Olympic medalist Wang Zhiwei both from chine and took 2nd and 3rd place respectively.
In the final round Jitu scored 191.3 where Pang scored 186.5 and Wang scored 165.8. and reached at the top place.
Jitu did not start as strongly as he would have wanted to in the final. However, the Indian army shooter maintained a top three position throughout.