46-year-old Mairaj Ahmed Khan received India its first-ever gold medal in males’s skeet an ISSF Global Cup on Monday, July 18.
Mairaj Ahmed Khan turns into first Indian to win males’s skeet Global Cup gold (Picture Courtesy: SAI)
HIGHLIGHTSMairaj received India its first-ever males’s skeet gold at ISSF Global CupThe 2-time Olympian shot 37 within the 40-shot ultimate on MondayIndia on best of medal tally with 13 in Changwon ISSF Global Cup
46-year-old Mairaj Ahmed Khan on Monday, July 18 scripted historical past as he received India’s first-ever ISSF Global Cup gold medal within the males’s skeet taking pictures tournament in Changwon. The oldest member of India’s taking pictures contingent on the Changwon Global Cup shot 37 within the 40-shot ultimate.
Mairaj, who hails from Uttar Pradesh, completed forward of Korea’s Minsu Kim (36) and Britain’s Ben Llewellin (26), who received the silver and bronze respectively.
Mairaj had shot 119/125 over two days of qualifying ahead of coming via in a five-way shoot-off. Mairaj discovered himself vying for 2 ultimate qualification spots together with 4 others, together with two-time Olympic medallist Abdullah Al Rashidi of Kuwait.
The 2-time Olympic had received a silver medal in males’s skeet in a 2016 version of the ISSF Global Cup in Rio de Janeiro.
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Previous within the day, the trio of Anjum Moudgil, Ashi Chouksey, and Sift Kaur Samra received bronze within the ladies’s 50m rifle 3P group tournament.
The Indians outplayed the Austrian group of Sheileen Waibel, Nadine Ungerank, and Rebecca Koeck 16-6 within the bronze medal fit to very easily protected a podium end.However the day unquestionably belonged to Khan.
With one gold and bronze on Monday, India remained on best of the medal tally with 13 medals (5 gold, 5 silver, and three bronze).
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