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Parth smashes junior World Record in 10m air rifle

Parth smashes junior World Record in 10m air rifle

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Teenager Parth Rakesh Mane, finished seventh in the 10m air rifle men’s final at the hallowed Olympic Shooting range in Munich, as India took many positives on Day 1. The youngster from Maharashtra had earlier shattered the junior national record with an effort of 633.6 in qualification, which gave him third spot in the classy 149-strong field. Korea and China shared the two gold medals on the day. Parth’s qualification score was bettered only by the eventual gold medallist and former 50m rifle three positions (3P) Olympic champion Zhang Changhong (636.3) of China and Paris silver medallist Victor Lindgren (633.9) of Sweden. Mane began the final with a solid 10.8 and even finished the first five-shot series with the same score, finding himself in fourth at that stage with just 0.7 separating the leader Chang from fifth placed Peter Gorsa, the Croatian legend. Korean Shin Minki then shot a perfect 10.9 to begin the second five-shot series and Mane found himself sliding down to eighth after a high-scoring second series. Going into his 12th shot …

Parth smashes junior World Record in 10m air rifle

Parth finishes seventh in 10m air rifle final

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Teenager Parth Rakesh Mane, finished seventh in the 10m air rifle men’s final at the hallowed Olympic Shooting range in Munich, as India took many positives on Day 1. The youngster from Maharashtra had earlier shattered the junior national record with an effort of 633.6 in qualification, which gave him third spot in the classy 149-strong field. Korea and China shared the two gold medals on the day. Parth’s qualification score was bettered only by the eventual gold medallist and former 50m rifle three positions (3P) Olympic champion Zhang Changhong (636.3) of China and Paris silver medallist Victor Lindgren (633.9) of Sweden. Mane began the final with a solid 10.8 and even finished the first five-shot series with the same score, finding himself in fourth at that stage with just 0.7 separating the leader Chang from fifth placed Peter Gorsa, the Croatian legend. Korean Shin Minki then shot a perfect 10.9 to begin the second five-shot series and Mane found himself sliding down to eighth after a high-scoring second series. Going into his 12th shot …

A friend in need: Behind Elavenil Valarivan and Arjun Babuta’s team rifle gold at Asian Shooting Championships, a familial bond | Sport-others News

A friend in need: Behind Elavenil Valarivan and Arjun Babuta’s team rifle gold at Asian Shooting Championships, a familial bond | Sport-others News

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5 min readUpdated: Feb 8, 2026 08:14 PM IST There was a moment at the Paris Olympics when Arjun Babuta was one trigger-finger away from winning a precious Olympic medal. But his nerve deserted him in that moment of need. His friend Elavenil Valarivan, though, didn’t. Elavenil, who had faced her own disappointment at the Olympics, saw Babuta break down in front of media at the Chateauroux shooting range and quickly whisked him away from the stage where the shooter could privately grieve the moment. “When somebody is down, you can see that is not the right moment. I think a friend is what they needed,” said Elavenil after her second gold medal at the Asian Shooting Championships at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range on Sunday. She had won the individual 10m air rifle women’s event earlier and added the 10m air rifle mixed team title with Babuta. It was in 2017 that both Babuta and Elavenil started shooting together in the same ranks as juniors. Almost ten years and two Olympic Games have …

Arjun, Elavenil win 10m Air Rifle mixed with World Record

Arjun, Elavenil win 10m Air Rifle mixed with World Record

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India’s Arjun Babuta and Elavenil Valarivan set World Record and Asian Championship record enroute their gold-winning performance in 10m air rifle mixed team final at the ongoing Asian Shooting Championship in New Delhi. Arjun and Elavenil combined to score 505 points in the final to successfully defend their Asian title. They finished ahead of Republic of Korea’s Kim Woorim and Kwon Eunji (501 points) and Japan’s Naoya Okada and Misaki Nobata (437.9 points). The previous record of 502.7 set by the German duo of Hanna Buehlmeyer and Maximilian Ulbrich at the ISSF Grand Prix in Slovenia last month. Compatriots Rudrankksh Patil and Meghana Sajjanar, who is eight months pregnant, finished third with a score of 629 in the qualification round. They did not advance as only one pair per nation was allowed to compete in the final. Speaking of his performance in the final and at the continental meet, Arjun said he was delighted to perform consistently. “I have been working on a few aspects for the final round where I was lacking. I am …

Rudrankksh Patil wins the men’s air rifle gold medal

Rudrankksh Patil wins the men’s air rifle gold medal

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Rudrankksh Patil and Arjun Babuta completed a 1-2 finish for India to secure the gold and silver medals, respectively, in the 10m Air Rifle Men’s event at the Asian Rifle/Pistol Championship on Friday. Meanwhile, Himanshu Dhillon, Ansh Dabas and Naren Pranav V.S swept the podium in the Junior Men’s air rifle event to continue India’s dominance at home. The mixed team pairs of Mukesh Nelavalli and Vanshika Chaudhary and Girish Gupta and Shiksha Saran secured gold in the 10m Air Pistol junior and youth mixed team events, respectively, to start India’s medal haul earlier in the day. Rudrankksh and Arjun started their finals slowly and were placed outside the medal places after the first series of shots. Rudrankksh got hold of momentum from the second series and took the lead in the 16th shot, maintaining it to the end to secure his first-ever Asian Championship medal. Arjun also climbed to the second spot at the end of the 16th shot. Both Indians maintained their positions on top from then on, with Rudrankksh finishing with a …

Suruchi Singh wins 10m air pistol gold with junior world record at ISSF World Cup Final

Suruchi Singh wins 10m air pistol gold with junior world record at ISSF World Cup Final

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India made a strong start at the season-ending ISSF World Cup Final on Saturday, with Suruchi Singh securing the women’s 10m air pistol gold and setting a new junior world record. Compatriot Sainyam added silver, delivering a commanding opening for the Indian contingent. Suruchi shot 245.1 in the final, surpassing Manu Bhaker’s six-year-old junior world record of 244.7. The performance also extended her dominant run on the World Cup circuit, where she has already won three gold medals this year. Sainyam followed with 243.3 to complete a one-two finish for India. Bhaker, a double Olympic bronze medallist, reached the final but placed fifth with 179.2. Mixed results for India in rifle events In the men’s 10m air rifle final, former world champion Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil and Paris Olympic finalist Arjun Babuta could not convert their qualification form into podium finishes. Rudrankksh ended fourth with 209.9 after an early 9.8 proved costly, while Babuta took sixth. Sweden’s Victor Lindgren claimed gold with 253.0, ahead of China’s Sheng Lihao and Hungary’s Istvan Peni. Elavenil Valarivan, coming off …

32 finals, 15 medals- Here is how Indian shooters fared in World Cups

32 finals, 15 medals- Here is how Indian shooters fared in World Cups

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The Indian Shooting team ended third in the standings at the Peru ISSF World Cup on Monday. Indian pairs Prithviraj Tondaiman/Pragati Dubey and Lakshay Sheoran/Neeru finished eighth and 12th, respectively, with scores of 134 and 128 out of 150 targets in qualification. As China topped the tally with four gold, three silver and six bronze medals, the USA came in second with a silver and five fewer bronze medals. India’s final tally read two gold, four silvers and the lone bronze won by Saurabh Chaudhary in the men’s air pistol. Earlier in the day, Simranpreet Kaur Brar had won silver in the women’s 25m pistol, to give India their seventh medal and a fourth silver of the competition. Story continues below this ad It was a good outing for the Indian shooters in the first swing of the ISSF World Cup in South America. Earlier in the Argentina World Cup, India had finished second to China with a haul of four gold, two silver and two bronze medals. The Indian shooters entered a total of 32 …

India clinch back-to-back silver medals at ISSF World Cup in Peru

India clinch back-to-back silver medals at ISSF World Cup in Peru

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India continued its fine run in shooting as Arya Borse and Rudrankksh Patil clinched the silver medal in the 10m air rifle mixed team event at the ISSF World Cup 2025, registering the country’s back-to-back silver medals. The Indian pair lost a tightly contested final 11-17 to the Norwegian duo of Jon-Hermann Hegg and Jeanette Hegg Duestad on Sunday, settling for a well-fought silver. This result follows another impressive showing on Saturday: Arjun Babuta bagged silver in the men’s 10m air rifle event. The 26-year-old Babuta came agonisingly close to clinching gold, finishing with a total of 252.3 points in the final — just 0.1 behind reigning Olympic champion Sheng Li Hao of China. Babuta was leading the final until the last double-elimination round, standing at 231.5 to Li’s 231.2 with two shots to go. However, the Chinese shooter flipped the script with a perfect 10.9 on his penultimate attempt, while Babuta could manage only 10.3. Though Babuta closed with a 10.5 — slightly higher than Li’s 10.3 — it wasn’t enough to overhaul the …

Shooting: How Charlie Mackesy’s book helped Arjun Babuta overcome Paris Olympics heartbreak and win silver at World Cup | Sport-others News

Shooting: How Charlie Mackesy’s book helped Arjun Babuta overcome Paris Olympics heartbreak and win silver at World Cup | Sport-others News

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Months after he finished up fourth in the men’s 10m air rifle final in Paris Olympics, Arjun Babuta would receive the author Charlie Mackesy’s picture book The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse from his coach Deepali Deshpande. The picture-book, which was later made into an 2023 Oscar winning animated short film, revolved around the idea of love, hope, friendship and the courage of asking for help with the storyline involving a boy getting lost in winter wilderness and crossing paths with a mole, a fox and a horse and eventually choosing to stay with his new friends. As Babuta clinced Silver, his first international medal, just 0.1 points behind eventual gold medal winner Sheng Lihao — who won gold at Paris Games — in the men’s 10m air rifle final in ISSF World Cup in Peru, Deshpande’s mind was taken to the book she gifted to Babuta. “It was a different Arjun post the fourth place finish in Paris. For some months, he was searching for answers and would even shut himself …

Rudrankksh Patil has score for 11th shot deleted, withdraws mid-way during 10m rifle final

Rudrankksh Patil has score for 11th shot deleted, withdraws mid-way during 10m rifle final

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There was some drama at the ISSF Shooting World Cup in Lima, Peru as the former 10m air rifle world champion Rudrankksh Patil withdrew from the final mid-way, which saw him end in 8th spot in the men’s 10m air rifle event where compatriot Arjun Babuta ended second behind China’s Sheng Lihao by the narrowest 0.1 margin. Rudrankksh was dejected that the score from his 11th shot in the final was disallowed by the jury. Patil had shot a 10.4 with his 11th shot which saw him go into fourth spot. But right after all the eights shooters had taken their 11th shot, the jury huddled at their table and had a prolonged discussion, which held up the 10m air rifle final. Eventually they came to the conclusion that Rudrankksh had shot before the chief range officer had given the command to do so. He was consequently docked the shot, and got no score for the 11th pull of the trigger. This meant, from 4th position, he slumped to last place in the 8-man final …