Anmol Jain and Manu Bhaker added another gold medal for India at the ISSF Junior Shooting World Cup in Sydney when they won the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team final on Monday. India, with 18 medals (seven golds, three silvers and eight bronze medals), are second in the standings, just behind China which won 22 medals. Italy is third with two gold medals and a bronze.
Anmol, 19, and Manu, 16, dominated the final match since its very first series, progressively building a gap between them and their closest rivals and eventually finishing with 478.9 points, 1.8-point away from the current World Record. Anmol and Manu also set a new Junior Qualification World Record with 770 points.
China clinched the bronze and silver medals. A second Indian pair – 18-year-old Gaurav Rana and 19-year-old Mahima Turhi Agrawal – finished fourth, leaving the final at the 38th-shot mark with 370.2 points. Manu Bhaker earlier won two gold medals. Elavenil Valarivan and Anish Bhanwala won gold in their respective events.
