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Shotgun World Championship | Indian teams fail to qualify for final round

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The Indian team of Kynan Chenai and Shagun Chowdhary failed to make it to the final round of the ongoing Shotgun World Championship Lonato Del Garda in Italy on Thursday. Another Indian team in the mixed trap event with Prithviraj Tondaiman and Seema Tomar also fail to reach the knockouts.

Kynan Chenai and Shagun Chowdhary managed to shoot a total of 132 only in the qualifying round. The score by the Indian duo was not enough to take them into the final round of the mixed trap event. Chenai shot 69 while Chowdhary managed 63 to bow out from the Championship.

Prithviraj Tondaiman had a good outing in the mixed team trap category as he accumulated a total of 72 points from a total of 75 in the three rounds. However, his partner Seema Tomar only scored 57 that saw the duo getting crashed out of the global event in Italy.

Vivaan Kapoor and Kirti Gupta scored a total of 130 and failed to make it to the final of the junior mixed team trap event. Kapoor had a perfect outing with 71 points but Gupta could reach only 59 which resulted in their knock out.

Another Indian pair in the same event with Vishwa Kundu and Preeti Rajak scored only 117 which is a poor score going by the standards of all others. Kundu and Rajak’s individual scores of 64 and 53 respectively was not enough for them to make the cut on Thursday.

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