4 min readMay 11, 2026 12:01 AM IST In what was a daunting qualification followed by a rainy spell in the final, the Indian trap mixed team of Vivaan Kapoor and Neeru Dhanda claimed the country’s second medal in the event in a ISSF World Cup since the event was reintroduced in Olympics with the bronze medal in the ISSF World Cup Shotgun at Almaty, Kazakhstan. The Indian pair, which had finished second in qualification, won the bronze medal in a field including the Italian team of Paris Olympics silver medalist Silvana Stanco and two-time Olympian and 2022 mixed team world champion Mauro De Filippis and 2022 world championships mixed team runner-up Kun-Pi Yang and Wan-Yu Liu of Chinese Taipei. With London Olympics double trap champion and now Indian foreign coach Peter Wilson watching from the coaches’ corner, the Indian pair gave a tough fight. “In the qualification as well as final, both me and Neeru were focussing on our process. We were not thinking about whom we were competing against. Yes, some of them …