4 min readMay 27, 2026 10:16 PM IST Most shooters lift rapidly and pull the trigger immediately. Esha Singh does not. Her coach Ronak Pandit had spent four years training her to lift slowly and release the shot in the movement itself rather than freezing her hand at the top. On Wednesday in Munich, in the Women’s 25m pistol final at the ISSF World Cup, Singh did not miss a point in her first three series and finished with a world record score of 43 – breaking Kim Yeji’s mark of 42 set in Baku in 2024. She is 21 years old. In the final were Paris Olympic champion Yang Jinn of Korea and former world champion Doreen Vennekemp of Germany. Yang finished fifth. Vennekemp won silver with 38 points. Singh won by five. “I do aim to lead from the start because 25m is so tight and it’s important to do that,” Singh told The Indian Express from Munich. “I don’t really see who is standing beside me or the names who are in …