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3rd Gold for Vijayveer Sidhu at Jr Shooting ISSF WC

Vijayveer Sidhu won his third gold medal at the ongoing ISSF Junior Shooting World Cup.

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Published : Jul 16, 2019, 9:45 PM IST

Suhl (Germany): Vijayveer Sidhu won his third gold medal at the ongoing ISSF Junior Shooting World Cup after combining with Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu ad Adarsh Singh to bag the men's 25m pistol event on Tuesday.

This was also the second gold of the competition for Adarsh.

Meanwhile, the trio of Hriday Hazarika, Yash Vardhan and Paarth Makhija bagged a silver medal in the men's 10m Air Rifle team event as they shot 1877.4, just 0.4 less than the gold winning Chinese team's score.

Hriday, however, finished fourth in the 10m Air Rifle individual competition.

With seven gold and a total of 16 medals so far, India leads the medal standings after three days of the World Cup.

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