ISSF world cup 2018: Anjum Moudgil wins silver in Women’s Rifle
ISSF world cup 2018: Anjum Moudgil wins silver in Women’s Rifle
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Anjum Moudgil won her first International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup medal- silver in the Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions (3P) event at the ongoing ISSF World Cup Rifle stage in Guadalajara, Mexico. On day six of competition and on a windy day making shooting very difficult during the finals, Anjum shot brilliantly to finish behind China’s Ruijiao Pei 455.4 to 454.2 after the 45-shot final.

Indian shooter Anjum remained in medal contention from the beginning of the final and at the end of the 15-shot kneeling position stood third behind Ruijiao and Slovakia’s Ziva Dvorsak. She pulled into the lead after the second 5-shot prone position series, which followed the kneeling position and was 0.9 points clear of German world number one Jolyn Beer at the end of it. After the 15-shot prone series she was still in the lead however after the 10th shot of the last standing series when the first two finalists out of the eight were eliminated, Anjum had gone down to fourth position.

Earlier in the qualification, Anjum rode on the back of a solid prone round of 399 out of 400 to log a combined 1170 and sail through to the eight woman final in second place behind China’s Ruijiao Pei who shot a qualification world record score of 1178. Gaayathri was well in contention for a finals place after the kneeling and prone rounds but a 371 out of 400 in the standing round meant that she would have to be content with a 15th place finish totaling 1153.

 

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