In an eight-shooter final of Pedigrade contestants, 19-year-old Suruchi Phogat won his first ISSF World Cup gold medal at women’s 10m air pistol at Buenos Aires, Argentina on Tuesday.
The region consisted of three Chinese shooters – including the Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist and mixed team gold medalist Jiang Ransin – and Korean Chu Gune, Haryana Shooter Gold Medal Elimination Round in the Chinese Kian Wei with a margin of 2.7 points.
Phogat said, “I didn’t know that Ranxin was about being an Olympic medalist. Whenever I shoot, my competition is with myself and what I did in training, to do it.” The Indian Express,
It was a double happiness day for India as Vijayveer Sidhu won his second ISSF World Cup medal – this time at a gold -men’s 25m rapid fire event. The 22-year-old shooter from Punjab dropped the Italian Ricardo Mazatty in the final 29–28.
File: Indian shooter Vijayveer Sidhu (L) in action. (Photo: Vijayveer Sidhu)
Indian had earlier won a silver medal in the ISSF World Cup in Delhi in 2021. He also won bronze in a 25m standard pistol at the World Championship in Cairo in 2022.
Major performance
On Tuesday, Suruchi topped the merit with a score of 583, including 16 inner 10. Bhakar, Veronica Major of Paris Olympic 25m bronze medalist Hungary and Paris Olympic mixed team champion Jorrana Arunovic missed the finals. In addition to ranksin, Germany’s 25m world champion Doren Venkamp was also depicted in the final.
The first series of Suruchi placed him fourth with a score of 49.9, but would shoot the second series score of the Indian 51.0, including 8.9, with Wei finishing fourth with Wei 102.9 with a Vai 102.9, followed by Korean Cho Gune at 101.1 and Ranxine 101.0. In the elimination series, Suruchi was shot for four scores of 10.7 or was always seen in the top three, with only two shots below 10.
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While Renxin finished third, Suruchi led the Kian before the gold medal eradication round. A 9.6 and 9.7 shooting cases with Kian will be resolved by a 10.8 and 10.0 Indians.
Changing games
The loss of wrestling has turned into the benefits of shooting. In 2017, Suruchi was nominated in wrestling by 19 Punjab Regiment Havildar, a 19 Punjab Regiment Havildar in his village Sicroli in Jhajjar district, but three months later a caller fracture forced him to leave the game.
The family works with wooden blocks at home, and Suruchi also gets a new pistol costing Rs 1,60,000.
“When Suruchi was born, I and my wife decided to make her a sportsperson. After her fracture, she changed her game. Since she likes all the games, she helped to focus her,” recalls her father.
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Indian shooter Suruchi Phogat with his coach Om Prakash. (Special arrangement)
It was in 2019 that Suruchi was enrolled in the academy of former Paris Olympics coach Suresh Singh, who was a former coach of Manu Bhakar, a double medalist at Guru Drronic Shooting Academy in Bhiwani of more than 60 km from his home.
Singh was affected by the natural shooting state of Suruchi. With Phogat SR, an anti -militant operations specialist, spending time on his daughter’s technique, Singh remembered to get almost technical shooter in Suruchi from the beginning.
The coach said, “It was a natural shooting condition, loading on the same muscle without any extra stretch or in the body.
Suruchi defeated Asian Sports Gold Medal winner Palak Gulia at the National Games earlier this year. He performed a good performance in national tests to seal his place in the national team. His father says, “I gave him a second pistol at a cost of Rs 1,80,000 last year. While some money came from my savings, many friends and relatives in the village also helped us.”
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National coach Om Prakash says, “Come here, Suruchi shot in training in the qualification format around 588-589 and believed to win gold. It helps that she does not know about Chinese or Korean people or does not consider them better than herself.”
Coach Singh also followed the final and shared his comments. “In the first series, he took some time and the last shot from the second series reached that shot. Also, as he planned.
Post World Cup, BA-I student at Government College, Birohar will once again return to his books. Suruchi said, “I do not watch TV nor do I watch movies or listen to songs. My study books are the only thing on which I would like to spend time.”
