At the ISSF World Cup in New Delhi (IND) there are eight events still on the schedule, after the People’s Republic of China dominated the first three days of shooting.
50m Rifle 3 Positions Women
The first event of the day will see 32 athletes compete for the 8 spots up for grabs in the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women final.
After surprisingly missing the final at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Croatia’s Snjezana Pejcic will try to add another Gold to her collection of four: one won in Changwon (KOR) in 2015, and three won during the 2016 ISSF World Cup Series, where she absolutely ruled the event.
Iran’s Najmeh Khedmati, whose 8th place at the Olympics was the best result of her career in this event as a senior shooter, will try to best the 5th place she nailed three days ago in the 10m Air Rifle Women event.
to do so, among the other shooters, she will have to face Switzerland’s Nina Christen, the junior Silver medalist at the ISSF World Championship held in Granada (ESP) in 2014, looking for her first final participation, and Germany’s Jolyn Beer, who claimed the Gold at last year’s first World Cup stage in Bengkok (THA).
The Indian home representative will enlists Elizabeth Susan Koshy, who competed and finished in 4th place at the Asian Olympic Qualifying Competition held in New Delhi in January 2016, Anjum Moudgil, who missed to enter the final during last year’s World Cup Series both in Munich (GER) and Baku (AZE), and Tejaswini Sawant, who won a World Cup Bronze in this event back in 2009.
Double Trap Men
The Double Trap Men event participant list will be headlined by Italy’s Marco Innocenti and Great Britain’s Steven Scott, who were both on the Rio 2016 podium last year.
Innocenti will be sustained by his teammates Antonino Barillà and Alessandro Chianese, who both won a World Cup Gold medal in Cyprus, Barillà in Larnaca in 2015 and Chianese in Nicosia in 2016, while the British team will be completed by young talent James Dedman, a two-time Silver medalist in ISSF Junior Cups and ISSF Junior World Cups.
Speaking of young talents, Australia’s James Willett will try to start another season with the right foot, as he secured a Bronze medal in his first participation in a World Cup one year ago, in Nicosia (CYP), to which he added a Gold in the following competition, the Olympic test event held in Rio de Janeiro (BRA) in April 2016.
The Indian team who is going to battle for a spot among the six finalists will be composed by 15-year-old Shapath Bharadwaj, one of the youngest athletes in this competition, and Sangram Dahiya and Ankur Mittal, both looking for their first World Cup final appearance.