World Cup: Ganemat wins skeet silver, Darshna third
Ganemat Sekhon has blazed a trail for Indian women shotgun shooters. She was the first Indian woman skeet shooter to win a medal in the junior world championships and the first to win a World Cup medal (bronze). On Monday, she added a World Cup silver in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
It turned out to be a special day for Indian shooting with Darshna Rathore winning bronze in the event, which meant for the first time India had two senior individual medals in women’s skeet at the World Cup.
Kazakhstan’s Assem Orynbay won the gold. Orynbay beat Ganemat in a tense shoot off after both ended the 60-shot final with 50 hits each. Ganemat missed one of the first two shoot-off targets while Orynbay hit both. It was 22-year-old Ganemat’s second individual World Cup medal, having won the first in Delhi in 2021. It was Darshna’s first medal in a senior final.
Darshna qualified for the six-woman final in second spot after equalling the national record score of 120 while Ganemat made the cut at fourth place after shooting 117. Orynbay topped the qualification (121) in a quality field that included world No. 10 Konstantina Nikolaou of Cyprus.
Nikolaou missed three of her first four targets in the final. At the end of the first 10 targets, Orynbay led with eight hits while four others, including Darshna and Ganemat, followed with seven.
Nikolaou was the first to be eliminated after 20 targets. Ganemat began shooting with more consistency as the final progressed. After 30 hits Ganemat led with 25 hits, followed by Orynbay (24). Darshna and Czech Sumova Barbora were tied at 22. The Czech was the next to fall, at the 40-target mark, and the two Indians were confirmed podium spots.
In men’s skeet, Mairaj Khan finished 16th with a score of 119/125. Gurjoat Khangura was 18th and Anantjeet Singh Naruka 22nd.
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