Arya and Rudrankksh win silver medal in shooting World Cup

Norway wins mixed air rifle gold, India third in medals table at World Cup in Lima.

Arya Borse and Rudrankksh Patil were beaten 17-11 by the Norway team of Jeanette Duestad and Jon-Hermann Hegg in the mixed air rifle gold medal match in the World Cup in Lima, Peru, on Sunday.

The Norwegian team had topped qualification 0.1 point ahead of the Indian team, but was able to assert itself better in clinching the gold.

India stayed third in the medals table with two gold, three silver and a bronze. William Hinton won the trap gold for USA, and thus the team stayed on top with four gold, two silver and a bronze.

China was in second place with three gold, three silver and five bronze.

In women’s trap, Pragati Dubey shot 113 and missed the final by two points.

The results:

Mixed air rifle: 1. Norway (Jeanette Duestad, Jon-Hermann Hegg) 17 (632.6; 2. India (Arya Borse, Rudrankksh Patil) 11 (632.5); 3. China (Wang Zifei, Song Buhan) 16 (632.0); 4. China-2(Du Yuchen, Fang Shangjian) 4 (630.5); 7. India-2 (Narmada Nithin, Arjun Babuta) 630.0.