Arianna Nember and Marco Coco ensured victories for Italy in women's and men's skeet competition at the ISSF Junior World Cup, as hosts India have added two more gold medals to their tally.
Nember trailed the early leader Mansi Raghuwanshi, who successfully cleared all of her opening 14 targets, but this became a four-way tie after 20 targets after the Indian missed three consecutively. Also in contention were Raiza Dhillon of India and the American Chloe Chaleunsinh.
Chaleunsinh would miss out on the medals and Nember and Dhillon would lead with 20 targets to go. Crucially, Nember missed just one of these compared to Dhillon's three, finishing with 53 to the Indian's 51. Raghuwanshi took the bronze.
Coco would sit in joint-third at the first elimination of the men's skeet final, but went on an impressive run of just one miss from his last 40 targets, making him the clear victor with a score of 56. The silver medal would go to Lassi Kauppinen of Finland on 53, who would hold off Cyprus' Andreas Pontikis, the bronze medallist.
Nember trailed the early leader Mansi Raghuwanshi, who successfully cleared all of her opening 14 targets, but this became a four-way tie after 20 targets after the Indian missed three consecutively. Also in contention were Raiza Dhillon of India and the American Chloe Chaleunsinh.
Chaleunsinh would miss out on the medals and Nember and Dhillon would lead with 20 targets to go. Crucially, Nember missed just one of these compared to Dhillon's three, finishing with 53 to the Indian's 51. Raghuwanshi took the bronze.
Coco would sit in joint-third at the first elimination of the men's skeet final, but went on an impressive run of just one miss from his last 40 targets, making him the clear victor with a score of 56. The silver medal would go to Lassi Kauppinen of Finland on 53, who would hold off Cyprus' Andreas Pontikis, the bronze medallist.
India claimed a one-two in the 10m air pistol mixed team eventAn all-Indian final in the 10m air pistol mixed team event saw Rashmika Sahgal and Kapil defeat Vanshika Chaudhary and Jonathan Antony 16-10. Spain's Ines Ortega Castro and Lucas Sanchez Tome won the battle for bronze against Parimah Amiri and Mohammadreza Ahmadi of Iran, coming from behind to win two important series, snatching it by a 16-14 margin.
Anushka Thokur, who had won the 50m rifle prone gold, was dominant in the women's 50m rifle 3 positions final too - winning by a margin of over six points. A great cushion was built up going into the standing section, which increased slightly. She would eventually finish with a total of 461.0, with her closest challenger being AIN athlete Anastasiia Sorokina on 454.9. Sorokina was comfortably ahead of another AIN athlete, Mariia Kruglova, whose penultimate 10.8 shot saw her take the bronze ahead of Anastasiia Gorokhova.
AIN athlete Dmitrii Pimenov took the men's 50m rifle 3 positions gold in style too after an excellent standing section. Finishing with consecutive scores of 10.7 and 10.8, it sealed his victory with a total of 459.9, a sizable margin ahead of India's Adriyan Karmakar, who was two points adrift with two to go. Far back, AIN athlete Kamil Nuriakhmetov claimed the bronze medal - himself being a good part ahead of Darko Tomasevic from Croatia.
Anushka Thokur, who had won the 50m rifle prone gold, was dominant in the women's 50m rifle 3 positions final too - winning by a margin of over six points. A great cushion was built up going into the standing section, which increased slightly. She would eventually finish with a total of 461.0, with her closest challenger being AIN athlete Anastasiia Sorokina on 454.9. Sorokina was comfortably ahead of another AIN athlete, Mariia Kruglova, whose penultimate 10.8 shot saw her take the bronze ahead of Anastasiia Gorokhova.
AIN athlete Dmitrii Pimenov took the men's 50m rifle 3 positions gold in style too after an excellent standing section. Finishing with consecutive scores of 10.7 and 10.8, it sealed his victory with a total of 459.9, a sizable margin ahead of India's Adriyan Karmakar, who was two points adrift with two to go. Far back, AIN athlete Kamil Nuriakhmetov claimed the bronze medal - himself being a good part ahead of Darko Tomasevic from Croatia.