Gauswami bags silver for India’s first medal

Jul 10, 2013 - Age Correspondent

Lajja Gauswami opened India’s account at the ISSF World Cup with a silver medal in the women’s 50-metre rifle 3 position event in Granada, Spain, on Tuesday.

Gauswami, the Commonwealth Games silver medallist, shot 584 in the qualification round and 454 in the finals to take home the silver ahead of Norway’s Malin Westerheim, who shot 443.9.
Itlaian Petra Zublasing won the gold after scoring 459.1 in the medal round.
The 24-year-old Indian totalled 152.4 over three series in kneeling, scored 154.8 in prone and 146.8 while standing to win the country’s first medal in the tournament, which got under way last week.
The Gujarat-born Gauswami had earlier won gold in the women’s 50m rifle 3 position, ahead of Sawant and veteran Anjali Bhagwat at the IX Sardar Sajjan Singh Sethi Memorial Masters shooting competition last year.
Among the other Indians in fray, London Olympics silver medallist Vijay Kumar failed to make the cut for the finals of men’s 25m rapid fire pistol event after finishing 13th in the qualification round. Pemba Tamang was placed a lowly 36th while Mahendra Singh was 42nd.

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