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Omkar Singh finishes 23rd in free pistol

NEW DELHI: Omkar Singh finished 23rd with a score of 553 in men's free pistol in the shooting World Cup in Belgrade.

The Indian shooters were unable to make an impact in women's 25-metre sport pistol and 10-metre air rifle as well.

In the women's air rifle final, Sonja Pfeilschifter of Germany had to endure a tie-shoot for the gold against Snjezana Pejcic of Croatia, which the German won 10.5 to 10.4, despite having shot a world record equalling 400 in the qualification phase.

The results:

Men: 50m free pistol: 1.Oleg Omelchuk (Ukr) 665.0 (569); 2.Pavol Kpoo (Svk) 664.7 (571); 3.Vladimir Isakov (Rus) 663.1 (569); 23.Omkar Singh 553; 36.Vivek Singh 549; 49.Om Prakash 542. MQS: Amanpreet Singh 552.

Women:

25m sport pistol: 1.Maria Grozdeva (Bul) 790.7 (584); 2.Celine Goberville (Fra) 790.6 (588); 3.Nino Salukvadze (Geo) 788.3 (586); 28. Rahi Sarnobat 576; 44.Anisa Sayyed 571; 49.Sonia Rai 569; MQS: Annu Raj Singh 570; Shweta Chaudhry 565.

10m air rifle: 1.Sonja Pfeilschifter (Ger) 503.5 (10.5) 400; 2.Snjezana Pejcic (Cro) 503.5 (10.4) 398; 3.Jessica Mager (Ger) 501.3 (397); 63. Neha Sapte 391; 71.Radhika Barale 391; 81.Mampi Das 389.

MQS: Priya Agarwal 398 .

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