Impressive as ever! Vivaan Kapoor bags bronze in ISSF Junior World Cup

New Delhi, March 23: Continuing to display an impressive run in the ISSF junior World Cup at Sydney, Australia, there is no stopping for India as the Indian shooting team teenager Vivaan Kapoor bagged the trap bronze medal today. 

The 16-year-old shooter fortified bronze with 30 hits out of 40 clays, finishing ahead of Kun-Pi Yang of Chinese Taipei who had 26 hits in the final. In the individual event, Vivaan shot 113 in qualification to qualify as the fifth finalist.

 

Vivaan Kapoor combined with Lakshay (112) and Ali Aman Elahi (103) to win the Indian team bronze with a total score of 328, preceded by Australia with 331 and China 335.

In the individual event, Kapoor shot 113 in qualification to qualify as the fifth finalist after coming second best to the silver winning Ouyang 4-3 in a shoot-off to determine minor places. He then shot 26 out of the first 35 birds to edge out Chinese Taipei’s Kun-Pi Yang who also had the same number of hits but the Indian had qualified in a higher position for the final, which ensured him his first Junior World Cup medal.

India had another finalist on the day with Sam George Sajan Christopher Ramesh in the Junior Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Postiions, shooting 1140 in qualifying to eventually finish sixth in the final with a score of 402.5.

India so far have two Gold and three bronze medals in the competition and are placed second behind China, who have collected five Gold, one Silver and three Bronze medals for a total of nine medals so far. Saturday has the Junior Men’s and Women’s 10m Air Pistol final lined up as well as the Mixed Team Trap final.