Ankur wins silver at World Shotgun C’ship

moscow : Ankur Mittal won the silver medal in the men’s double trap event at the ISSF World Shotgun Championship. In the junior category, 17-year-old Ahvar Rizvi won the silver medal in the same event.
Mittal scored 66 points as he maintained his lead till the final four shots when Russia’s Vitaly Fokeev took over, eventually winning the event with 68 points.
In the junior men’s double trap team event, India won the gold with a combined score of 401. Italy won silver with 389 and China bronze with 387. Rizvi shot brilliantly to lead till the end, but lost the gold in the last two targets to Briton James Dedman.