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Sift Samra ends with a disappointing 48th place in 50m 3P

Sift Samra ends with a disappointing 48th place in 50m 3P

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India had a disappointing run in the women’s 50m rifle 3 position event at the 2025 ISSF World Championships, as all 3 shooters missed the final in Cairo, Egypt on Wednesday. The reigning Asian Games champion and India’s biggest medal hope, Sift Kaur Samra, had a bad day as she finished in a dismal 48th position with a total of 580. The other two Indian shooters, Ashi Chouksey (588) and Anjum Moudgil (587), had a comparatively better outing but they also missed out, finishing in 15th and 17th positions respectively. #News | World No. 2 Sift Kaur Samra finishes at a disappointing 48th place 💔 India return without medals in the women’s 50m 3P event at the ISSF World Championships 2025.All three shooters – Ashi Chouksey, Anjum Moudgil, and Sift Kaur Samra, missed out on a place in the final.… pic.twitter.com/p1sgGAsDLD — The Bridge (@the_bridge_in) November 12, 2025 Second successive failure for Sift at majors The world No. 2 Sift got a poor start in the kneeling position, scoring only 187 out of 200, and …

ISSF World C’ships: Manu Bhaker, Suruchi to lead India’s 40-member contingent

ISSF World C’ships: Manu Bhaker, Suruchi to lead India’s 40-member contingent

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India’s top shooters are ready for one of the biggest competitions of the year, the ISSF World Championships Rifle/Pistol, scheduled to take place in Cairo, Egypt, from 8 to 17 November. A 40-member Indian contingent will represent the country, featuring Olympic medalists Manu Bhaker and Swapnil Kusale, along with former world champion Rudrankksh Patil. Can India win multiple Individual golds? India has produced several world-class shooters in recent years, but translating that dominance into individual gold medals at the World Championships has been a challenge. In the men’s rifle events, India has had only two individual world champions in the last two decades, Abhinav Bindra in 2006 and Rudrankksh Patil in 2022. On the women’s side, Tejaswini Sawant remains the only Indian woman to have won an individual world title, achieving the feat back in 2010 in the 50m Rifle Prone event. This year, a new generation of shooters, including Suruchi Singh and Manu Bhaker, will aim to end the 15-year wait for another Indian woman to claim an individual gold. Meanwhile, Rudrankksh Patil, the …

Four gold medals lead India to 2nd place

Four gold medals lead India to 2nd place

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Riding on gold medals for familiar names in Sift Kaur Samra, Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil and Vijayveer Sidhu, and a rising star in Suruchi Phogat, the Indian shooting team finished second in the year’s first ISSF World Cup in Buenos Aires, Argentina. With the help of the bronze picked up by the mixed team air pistol pair of Suruchi and Saurabh Chaudhary earlier in the day on Thursday, India’s tally of four gold, two silver and two bronze medals, put them just behind China, who finished on top of the standings with five gold, three silver and three bronze medals. The highlight of India’s performance were the golds picked up by Sift (50m rifle 3 positions (3P) women), Rudrankksh (10m air rifle men), Suruchi (10m air pistol women) and Vijayveer (25m rapid-fire pistol men). Vijayveer, in fact, became the first Indian to ever win an ISSF World Cup gold in 25m rapid fire pistol event. Teenager Suruchi’s emphatic victory over a top field was also a fine performance, marking her continued good performances this year. Story …

Sift Kaur Samra Wins India’s First Gold At ISSF Shooting World Cup, Esha Singh Bags Silver

Sift Kaur Samra Wins India’s First Gold At ISSF Shooting World Cup, Esha Singh Bags Silver

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Indian shooter Sift Kaur Samra produced a sensational come-from-behind performance to win her first individual ISSF World Cup gold in the women’s 50m rifle 3-positions final, while Esha Singh bagged a second individual World Cup silver in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The 23-year-old Sift from Faridkot thus earned India its first gold of the season-opening World Cup stage event at the Tiro Federal Argentino de Buenos Aires shooting range late on Friday. The world record holder was a huge 7.2 points behind Anita Mangold of Germany after 15-shots in the first Kneeling position. However, she staged a dream comeback in the second Prone and final Standing positions to win by a canter in the end. Sift finished with 458.6 points at the end of the 45-shot final, while Mangold ended 3.3 points behind on 455.3. Junior World Championship medallist Arina Altukhova of Kazakhstan was third, bowing out after the 44th shot with a tally of 445.9. India now have three medals — a gold, a silver and a bronze won earlier in the men’s …

Sift Kaur Samra wins stunning gold medal at Shooting World Cup

Sift Kaur Samra wins stunning gold medal at Shooting World Cup

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It was a late Friday night to remember for Indian shooting as Sift Kaur Samra pulled off a stunning come-from-behind victory in the women’s 50m Rifle 3-Positions (3P) final at the Tiro Federal Argentino de Buenos Aires shooting range. It was her first individual ISSF World Cup gold and also India’s first gold of the season-opener in Argentina. After 15-shots in the first Kneeling position, Sift was stage 7.2 points behind Anita Mangold of Germany and eventual silver medalist, but staged a dream comeback in the second Prone and final Standing positions to win by a canter in the end. She eventually finished with 458.6 at the end of the 45-shot final, while Mangold ended 3.3 behind on 455.3. Junior World Championship medalist Arina Altukhova of Kazakhstan was third, bowing out after the 44th shot with a tally of 445.9. Sensational Sift Sift qualified for the final in top spot with a strong 590, when the likes of reigning Olympic champion Chiara Leone and the previous Olympic champion Nina Christen, both from Switzerland, could not …

Shooting: Read what Asian Games gold medallist Sift Kaur Samra says went wrong at Paris Olympics | Sport-others News

Shooting: Read what Asian Games gold medallist Sift Kaur Samra says went wrong at Paris Olympics | Sport-others News

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Up until the Paris Olympics, Indian Women’s 50m 3P shooter Sift Kaur Samra always had a get-out-of-jail card in her pocket. She knew that if her prone and kneeling positions weren’t right up there with the best in the world, she could always just rev up the Ferrari that is her standing position scores. Be it her fifth-placed finish at the World Championships, or the World Record breaking effort at the Hangzhou Asian Games, Samra’s standing blitzkrieg would always soar her over some of the best Olympic shooters in the continent and then the World. But come Chateauroux, the poor prone and kneeling was followed by an even worse standing performance. Qualification came to a close and one of India’s favourites for a medal (she had won bronze at the Munich World Cup just a month removed) at the Paris Olympics finished a shocking 31st out of 32 shooters. Samra immediately came back to India and went to a range to put up a score. She needed to know whether it was the rifle that …

Sift Kaur Samra, Niraj Kumar Win In Olympic Selection Trials

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Sift Kaur Samra won her third women’s 50m rifle 3 positions competition while Niraj Kumar emerged victorious in the men’s event for a second time on the penultimate day of the Olympic Selection Trial (OST) 3 and 4 in Bhopal on Saturday. Sift shot 461.3 in the women’s 3P trial 4 final to edge out Nischal by a point. Ashi Chouksey was third with 448.1. Shriyanka Sadangi and Anjum Moudgil were fourth and fifth respectively in the five-woman field. In the men’s 3P, Niraj finished on top with a healthy 462.9, a whole 1.7 ahead of second-placed Chain Singh. Aishwary Tomar was third with 449.8, while Swapnil Kusale and Akhil Sheoran finished fourth and fifth respectively. The results confirmed Sift as the top finisher in women’s 3P, considering three best scores out of the four trials. Anjum Moudgil also confirmed her position as second best of the trials among the five qualified shooters. In the men’s 3P, Aishwary Tomar and Swapnil Kusale finished 1-2 after the competition of four trial matches. Clarity in …

How Anjum Moudgil brushed away blues after falling out of love with shooting and painting | Sport-others News

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Anjum Moudgil knew the exact moment when she realised she wasn’t ‘doing well mentally’. “It was when I stopped painting.” Anjum is a former world No.1 shooter, a world championship medallist and an Olympian. But she’s a lot more than a rifle-wielding 30-year-old. She can juggle fire, used to box and perform deadlifts. The colourful strokes of brush, however, gave her a real sense of purpose. Anjum painted for herself and her teammates. During the pandemic, she even auctioned her artwork, the proceeds of which were donated to the needy. So, when she suddenly lost interest in painting during a dip in form, it triggered alarm bells. “I was just shooting, giving everything to shooting. I didn’t like that,” she said. Obsessing over results, she first fell out of love with the sport. And thenwas out of the Indian team. On Friday, after spending the whole of 2023 on the sideline, Anjum returned to the national team for the Paris Olympics. She did enough to finish second after the conclusion of the selection trials in …

Sift Kaur Samra strengthens her position in Paris race

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Delhi: World record holder Sift Kaur Samra continued her domination in the women’s 50m 3P event after winning back-to-back Olympic selection trials at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi. Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, also entered the OST winner’s circle, winning the men’s 3P T2 final in a classic 0.22 scrap to the finish line. Sift, the reigning Asian Games champion, world record holder, and the undisputed India number one in women’s 3P for some time now, shot 465.1 in the OST T2 final, to leave Ashi Choksey 2.4 behind in second. Anjum Moudgil was third, after coming second-best in a shoot-off with Ashi. Shriyanka Sadangi and Nishchal came in fourth and fifth. Sift had also earlier won the women’s 3P OST T1 at the same venue on Wednesday. As things stand, one more good performance in Bhopal, where the OSTs 3&4 are scheduled next month, should see Sift through. Aishwary makes a comeback in 10m men’s air pistol The men’s 3P OST T2 final saw yet another India number one and deemed …

Paris Olympics selection trials: Shooter Sift Kaur Samra, riding high from Asian Games, aces first step | Sport-others News

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The dust may have settled from her Asian Games heroics last year, but Sift Kaur Samra is hoping to ride that momentum straight to the Olympics. After winning India’s first-ever individual shooting Asiad gold medal in Hangzhou last year, breaking the world record in the process, Sift kicked off the Olympic shooting trials with a dominant performance, taking top spot with a score of 466.3, edging out fellow quota-winner Ashi Chouksey (462.6) and Olympian Anjum Moudgil (449.2) in the women’s 50m rifle 3-position category in New Delhi on Wednesday. Recovering from a poor qualification round, as well as a 1.1 point deficit after the first 15 shots in the kneeling position in the final, Sift looked at ease from the moment she took the lead after a near-perfect second stage in the prone position, and cruised to a comfortable win. “The mood is normal, not very different,” she said after the match on Wednesday. “Yesterday (qualification) was not a good day for me, but I knew the mistake I was making, so just focused on …