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From village fair to becoming junior world champion: 16-year old shooting sensation Parth Mane beats Olympics silver medallist in 10m air rifle | Sport-others News

“Olympic silver medallist was in the final, is it so?,” That’s what 16-year-old Parth Mane, India’s latest junior world champion said almost 16 hours after becoming the junior world champion in the men’s 10m air rifle final at Lima, Peru. With shooters like Paris Olympics silver medallist Victor Lindgren of Sweden apart from reigning junior Asian champion Huang Liwanlin of China in the final, the Solapur native would shoot a score of 250.7 to become the champion. “My process and technique. That’s what my coach and idol Suma Shirur have always made me believe in and that was my target in the final. Olympic medallist final mein tha, ye to aap hi mujhe bata rahe ho (That there was an Olympic medallist in the final, I have found only now from you). To win my first junior world title is a special feeling for me and I am glad that I was able to shoot according to my strengths,” shares Mane while speaking with The Indian Express from Lima. It was at a village fair …