An Indian Boy, Divyansh Singh Panwar brought a bronze medal for his country and opened the medals tally with his first achievement in the men’s 10o-meter air rifle first final match of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup, which was held in Delhi on Saturday, March 20. Divyansh Panwar stroke 228.1 to finish the third position on the podium at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting range. On the other side, the American participant Lucas Kozeniesky achieved the gold medal with 249.8 while the Hungary participant Istvan Peni claimed the silver medal with 249.7. The other participant of India, Arjun Babuta finished its game with the fifth position after scoring three scores below the 10 in the eight-man final.
It was seen by the seventh series of 10.6 and 10.3 that Divyansh Panwar is still alive at fourth place because Israel’s player Sergey Richter fell behind him. While the Tokyo Olympic quota receptacle stroke 10.6 to finish with the bronze medal in the game. This victrory will definitely raise the confidence of Jaipur boys’ Divyanshu because it will help him to play better in Tokyo Olympic Games. He was placed to the sixth position with 60 shots of total of 629.1 while, on the other side, Babuta was placed to the third position with 631.8 qualification.
In the first final, Babuta was stading with the 9.9 score and then, the second one was 9.7. Again in the pressure, a 22-years old Babuta started from fourth series with one more 9.9 before eliminated on the fifth position with 185.5 points.
In the last final game, three positive Covid-19 cases was found in the game including two Indian pistol shooter. The shooters are under self-isolation in their hotel and those, who were sharing the room have also been isolated in Covid-19 tests and the result of the roomates will come out.
According to the reports, two shooters are belong to Indian community. A total of four positive case have found in the teams since the team are coming for the tournament in India. In this week, the International shooter have returned Covid-19 positive then, he was sent back to the hospital.
Now, the reports have come for the roommates and they are allowed to play in the tournament as their result was out negative. Their names are not revealed due to personal reasons and as well as protocols.
Around 294 shooter came from 53 countries including Singapore, UK, Ukraine, France, Thailand, USA, Korea, and Turkey to take part in this tournament.
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