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Navnath Farthate shoots gold

ZAGREB: Navnath Farthate clinched the junior men's air rifle gold on the third day of the World shooting championship on Tuesday.

Navnath shot 596 out of 600 to win the gold, a solitary point ahead of local lad Petar Gorsa in a field of 81 shooters. The Indian had a superb start and kept the flow with a series of 100, 100, 99, 100, 99 and 98.

India now has two gold and two bronze medals so far in the current edition. India had only four medals to show from all the previous World championships put together.

Avneet Kaur clinched the second Olympic quota place despite finishing eighth in women's air rifle.

Avneet went into the final with a 397 out of 400, and a bad fourth shot in the final when she had a 8.1 spoilt her chances of finishing better.

Recovers

Avneet, who had won the silver in the Commonwealth Games behind Tejaswini Sawant, recovered, after a bad start of 97, in a breathtaking fashion as she shot three perfect rounds of 100 thereafter.

Tejaswini was not that good this time as she ended up with a 394. The third Indian shooter, Olympian Deepali Deshpande could muster only a 390 and India missed the bronze by six points.

There was a more agonising miss in the 25-metre pistol junior men's event, as the Indian team of Zakir Khan, Pushpender Singh and Nikhil Yadav lost the bronze by one point. Zakir Khan who was sitting pretty at the fourth spot after the precision stage slipped to the seventh spot eventually with a 572, but his teammates failed to pull for the combined cause.

The results: 10m air pistol: women: 1. Natalia Paderina (Rus) 586.9 (387); 2. Hu Jun (Chn) 485.2 (387); 3. Viktoria Chaika (Blr) 485.1 (384); 41. Sonia Rai 377; 45. Annu Raj Singh 377; 74. Saroja Kumari Juthu 372. Team: 1. China 1154; 2. Belarus 1140; 3. Russia 1138; 17. India 1126.

25m pistol: junior men: 1. Leonid Ekimov (Rus) 580 (50); 2. Thibaut Sauvage (Fra) 580 (48); 3. Ivan Stoukachev (Rus) 576; 7. Zakir Khan 572; 19. Pushpender Singh 562; 25. Nikhil Yadav 559. Team: 1. Russia 1721; 2. France 1715; 3. Korea 1694; 4. India 1693.

Junior women: 1. Zorana Arunovic (Scg) 577; 2. Yu Lu (Chn) 576; 3. Alena Suslonova (Rus) 575; 37. Shweta Chaudhary 554. Team: 1. China 1715; 2. Bulgaria 1710; 3. Russia 1708.

50m free pistol: Men: 1. Tan Zongliang (Chn) 667.1 (570); 2. Viglio Fait (Ita) 662.8; 3. Vladimir Isakov (Rus) 662.7 (568). Team: 1. China 1685; 2. Russia 1668; 3. Italy 1667; 18. India 1629.

10m air rifle: women: 1. Du Li (Chn) 502.1 (398); 2. Katerina Kurkova (Cze) 501.8 (398); 3. Olga Dovgun (Kaz) 500.9; 8. Avneet Kaur Sidhu 498.1 (397); 23. Tejaswini Sawant 394; 70. Deepali Deshpande 390. Team: 1. Germany 1192; 2. China 1190; 3. Russia 1187; 4. India 1181.

Junior men: 1. Navnath Farthate 596; 2. Petar Gorsa (Cro) 595; 3. Cao Yifei (Chn) 593; 26. Fulchand Bangar 587; 75. Hardeep Singh 571. Team: 1. China 1769; 2. Italy 1767; 3. Korea 1766; 12. India 1754.

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