Saurabh Chaudhary won a 10m air pistol bronze in Lima, Peru, when he again climbed the ISSF World Cup podium.
The 22-year-old Uttar Pradesh, who made his comeback to the Indian shooting team after a gap of more than two years earlier this year, ended with a score of 219.1 in the eight-shooter finals, including Paris Olympic Champion U Zee, who won the fifth and 2016 Olympic silver medalist Almeda Felip Wu, who won. Chaudhary had recently won a bronze medal at the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team event with Suruchi Singh at the ISSF World Cup in Argentina.
Choundary told the minutes of the Indian Express after the final, “I have won a personal World Cup medal.
In the eight shooter finals, among others, Chinese Kai Hu, who won gold at the ISSF World Cup in Argentina, as well as Chaudhary’s nephew Varun Tomar, and 25m rapid fire pistol champions from Christian Ritz, Rio.
Chaudhary started the final with a series of 50.7, which was ranked second behind XIE, shooting the first series of 50.8. Tomar shot 50.5 to finish third after the first five shots. With all eight shooters returning with 10 or below shots, it was a low scoring first series.
Chaudhary, who had only one score of more than 10.5 in the first series, had a devastating second series with four shots below 10 and would fall to only one, fourth in 10.0. HU with Wu took a gain of 2.0 points on Tomer with a total score of 100.2 with a gain of 2.0 points. “Saurabh started slowly, but all the shooters were struggling because the last hall here was a bit deep. But once Saurabh adjusted and found his rhythm, he continuously shot. This medal would give him a lot of confidence,” National coach Om Prakash said that “National Coach Om Prakash said The Indian Express,
Saurabh Chaudhary with national coach Om Prakash after winning bronze. (Special arrangement)
After the first eradication phase, Tomar was ranked third with a score of 119.5 with Chaudhary in joint fifth place. Hu was leading the final with a score of 123.0.
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The second elimination phase saw Varun climbing second with a total score of 140.5, in which HUsu placed the leader with the benefit of 2.8 points. Chaudhary finished fifth with a score of 139.4 as Ritz was abolished by the final.
In the next elimination stage, the next two shots shot Chaudhary Shooting 10.2 and 10.6 and to climb second with a total of 160.2 and Tomar finished fourth.
But with XIE shots of 9.4 and 9.2 with a poor next elimination phase shooting and Chaudhary (10.2 and 10.2) and Tomar (10.0 and 10.5) were finished to live in the top four, which meant that both were in controversy for medals with Indian Hu, which was just 0.1 marks ahead of Chaudhary. Tomar will exit in fourth position after the next eradication series, but Chaudhary will retain the third position. In the next abolition phase, Chaudhary shot a 9.6 to end with a bronze medal.
