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India’s Ankur Mittal has won a silver in the ongoing World Shotgun Championship in Moscow scoring 66 points at men's double trap event before losing to Vitaly Fokeev. A silver medal by young Ahvar Rizvi in the junior individual category has now taken India to the fourth position in the Championship.

India had a disappointing outing in mixed team trap event at the ISSF Shotgun World Championship in Moscow with the pairs of Zoravar Singh-Seema Tomar and Kynan Chenai-Sreyasi Singh finishing at the 24th and 33rd spot respectively. India will now look at the men’s and junior’s events for a medal.

Indian shooters Heena Sidhu and Jitu Rai have secured the Gold medal for India at the ongoing Shooting World Cup in Gabala in the mixed team 10m Air Pistol (demo) event. The mixed team air pistol event is one of the new events that has been added to the shooting events for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

The hopes of a medal at the ISSF World Cup now rests on the shoulders of Heena Sidhu and Sanjeev Rajput after Jitu Rai and Tejaswini Sawant failed to make it into the final of their respective events. Jitu ended up 10th on the board while Tejaswini could only muster a final position of 15.