ISSF Rifle/Pistol World Championship 2022: India’s Anjum Moudgil narrowly misses Paris 2024 Olympics quota
Anjum Moudgil finished sixth in the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions. Indian shooters won one gold, one silver and two bronze on Friday.
Indian shooter Anjum Moudgil missed out on a Paris 2024 Olympics quota spot at the ISSF Rifle/Pistol World Championship 2022 in Cairo, Egypt on Friday.
Anjum Moudgil - a silver-medallist at the world championships and the Commonwealth Games - finished sixth in the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions with a score of 355.4. Only the top four finishers earned quota places for the Paris Olympics.
In the ranking match, Anjum Moudgil could only shoot 100.1 in the kneeling position, which was almost five points off the best score. Though she topped the prone positions score with 105.1, it was not enough to move into the top four with a par score in the standing position.
She had finished seventh in qualification to make it to the ranking match.
China’s Wanru Miao won gold in the event, Norway’s Jenny Stene won silver and another Norwegian Jeanette Hegg Duestad took bronze. The USA’s Sagen Maddalena took the final Paris 2024 quota spot after finishing fourth.
India’s star of the day was Sagar Dangi, who won silver in the junior men’s 10m pistol and then won gold with the junior men’s pistol team.
In the junior men’s 10m pistol, Sagar Dangi topped the ranking match to go to the final, where he lost 16-12 to China’s Jinkang Gao. India’s Varun Tomar took the bronze medal in the event.
Sagar Dangi and Varun Tomar then teamed up with Samrat Rana to top the qualifying round of the junior men’s pistol team and then beat the Uzbekistan team 16-8 in the final to clinch the gold medal.
The pair of Nancy and Karthik Sabari Raj won the bronze medal in the junior mixed team 10m rifle as they beat a Swedish pair in the shootoff. The Indians had finished third in qualifying to be eligible for the bronze medal shootoff.
India are still second in the ISSF Rifle/Pistol World Championship standings with 30 medals - 11 gold, seven silver and 12 bronze medals. China lead the tally with 51 medals.