India ended their campaign at the 28th Meeting of the Shooting Hopes, in Pilsen, Czech Republic, with a haul of 11 gold medals. Manu Bhaker collected her fourth gold of the meet after winning the junior’s 10m air pistol mixed event on the concluding day partnering Anmol Jain.
Manu and Anmol shot a total of 476.9 in the final to upstage the second Indian pair of Devanshi Rana and Saurabh Chaudhary, who ended with 475.7 to win silver. Slovakia won bronze.
India also collected two golds in the 50m pistol men junior event with Arjun Singh Cheema leading a clean sweep in the individual event with a score of 563. Compatriots Anmol Jain and Vijayveer Sidhu won silver and bronze with scores of 554 and 553 respectively while the trio also won the team event.
In the last event of the day, the Italian pair of Sofia Benetti and Marco Suppini got the better of Hriday Hazarika and Sreya Agrawal, beating them 497.0 to 496.5. Elavenil Valarivan and Divyansh Panwar of India also won bronze with a final score of 433.9.
