10m Air Pistol Women Final:
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 10.1
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 10.5
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 10.1
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 9.1. She slips to fourth place with that shot.
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 9.3. The first series of Competition Stage 1 is over. Third now.
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 10.6. WOW! 2nd now.
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 10.1. Back to 1.
10m Air Pistol Women: And Yashaswini does finish first to qualify for the Final! Annu Raj Singh (572) and Shweta Singh (568) bow out.
25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men: Adarsh Singh finishes Qualification Stage 1 with 291.
50m Rifle 3 Positions Women: ELIMINATED! Saini finishes with a score of 1167 at 22nd. Tejaswini is placed 47th with 1156 points.
10m Air Pistol Women: The Relay 1 is over and guess who has taken the top spot?! Yes, it is Yashaswini. She has all but qualified for the final.
Now we have to wait for the second relay. She has scored 582, seven points short of Anna Korakaki's and Olena Kostevych's World Record.
10m Air Pistol Women: Bhaker completes the MQS section with 580. The par score for this event is 550.
10m Air Pistol Women: Yashaswini scores 99, 97 and 96 in the first three series and has leapt up to the No 1 Spot! Can she stay at the top and finish Qualification?
10m Air Pistol Women: Bhaker scores 94, 100 and 96 in the first threes series of the MQS Extra round.
50m Rifle 3 Positions Women: Sawant completes the Qualification round with a score of 1156. She is all but eliminated.
10m Air Pistol Women: Yashaswini Deswal Singh is shooting in the first relay. Annu Raj Singh and Shweta Singh will be participating in the second. Manu Bhaker has started in the first relay of the MQS.
25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men: Anhad Jawanda finishes Qualification Stage 1 with 281.
50m Rifle 3 Positions Women: Sawant stages a comeback to shoot 398 in Prone. But is that too late? She is placed 41st now.
Saini, however, has put up a much better performance today, to finish the Prone and Kneeling round with a total of 785. She is placed 18th and a strong performance in Standing is necessary for her to make the Final.
50m Rifle 3 Positions Women: Saini finishes with 388 in Kneeling (99, 95, 96 and 98)
50m Rifle 3 Positions Women: Sawant completes the Kneeling round with a 97 and 93. The scoreboard says 380.
50m Rifle 3 Positions Women: However, Saini shoots 95 and 96 in the next two series to slip to the 36th place. Sawant, meanwhile, shoots a 95 again.
25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men: Anish shoots 291 (97, 98 and 96) in Stage 1 of the Qualification.
50m Rifle 3 Positions Women: Kajal Saini shoots 99 in the first series of Kneeling. However, there would be pressure on Tejaswini Sawant, who has started the Qualification stage with a 95.
INDIANS IN ACTION:
50m Rifle 3 Positions Women: Tejaswini Sawant and Kajal Saini
25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men: Anish, Anhad Jawanda, and Adarsh Singh
10m Air Pistol Women: Manu Bhaker (MQS), Yashaswini Singh Deswal, Shweta Singh, Annu Raj Singh, and Esha Singh (MQS)
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India tops the medal tally with 4 medals (2 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze) - ISSF
EVENTS OF THE DAY:
| Time of event (in IST) | Event name |
| 05:30 pm - 08:15 pm | 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women |
| 05:30 pm - 10:30 pm | 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men Stage 1 |
| 07:30 pm - 08:45 pm | 10m Air Pistol Women Relay 1 |
| 09:30 pm | Final 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women |
| 09:30 pm - 10:45 pm | 10m Air Pistol Women Relay 2 |
| 10:45 pm | Victory Ceremony |
| 11:45 pm | Final 10m Air Pistol Women |
| 12:30 pm | Victory Ceremony |
DAY 1 HIGHLIGHTS:
Elavenil Valarivan clinched the gold medal with 251.7 points in 10m Air Rifle on Wednesday. This was the first senior World Cup medal for the 20-year-old from Cuddalore.
Great Britain's Seonaid Mcintosh and Taiwan's Lin Ying-Shin, meanwhile, grabbed the silver and bronze medals, respectively. Ying-Shin, additionally, also won an Olympic Quota place for her country.
Valarivan, who shot 629.4 in the qualification round and placed fourth, to join her senior Anjum Moudgil in the final, earlier, had a series of 105.8, 106.0, 105.4, 103.4, 103.9, and 104.9.
Moudgil, on the other hand, finished sixth.
Earlier, the two-time World Cup gold medallist Apurvi Chandela crashed out of the qualification after being placed 11th with a score of 627.7.
Mehuli Ghosh, who took part in the Minimum Qualification Score (MQS) section, had a total of 629.1.
In women’s 25-metre sports pistol, Chinki Yadav shot 290 in the precision stage, while Abhidnya Patil pocketed 286. Annu Raj Singh, later, in the last relay, scored 292. In the MQS section, Manu Bhaker and Rahi Sarnobat finished with 293 and 289 points in Precision, respectively.
In men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions, Sanjeev Rajput finished at 14th with a total score of 1170 in Elimination Relay 1. Chain Singh, on the other hand, placed 27th with 1163.
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 10.0.
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 9.0. Down to 2 again.
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 9.3. Jumps back to 1. She ends the first Competition Stage at 1.
ELIMINATION ROUNDS
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: A 10.4 is greeted by loud cheers from the crowd.
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 10.0.
Germany's Julia Hochmuth eighth with 112.2. No Quota for her.
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 9.0. But her lead is good enough to keep her at the top spot.
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 10.4.
Iran's Golnoush Sebghatollahi has to settle for the seventh place with a score of 133. She fails to win a Quota as well.
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 9.1. She slips to the second spot again now.
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 10.8. After that we do not need to mention her place, do we?
What? Qian Wang shoots an 8.5 to exit the final with 153.7. A shocker!
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 10.4.
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 9.4
Latvia's Agate Rasmane bows out with 173.1 points. Fifth!
That just confirms India's Quota! Oh yes!
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 10.2
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 9.9
Yoo Hyunyoung fourth. Score: 195.0
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 9.7
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 10.9
Bronze for Jasmina Milovanovic. Score: 215.7. But she has won her country a Quota.
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 9.2
Yashaswini Singh Deswal: 9.6. Deswal takes gold and that too against the World No. 1 Olena Kostevych. Cool as cucumber! Total Score: 236.7
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