India thus finished second behind China with 17 medals — six gold, six silver and five bronze. China won 28 medals.
New Delhi: The 19-year-old Kamaljeet helped India pick up two more gold medals on the final day of ISSF Junior World Championship in Changwon, South Korea, as he won both the men’s 50m pistol individual and team events on Monday,July 24, a report in The Tribune, Chandigarh, says
India thus finished second behind China with 17 medals — six gold, six silver and five bronze. China won 28 medals.
Kamaljeet shot 544 out of a possible 600 in the individual event to leave Uzbek Veniamin Nikitin with 542 in second position. Korean Kim Taemin won bronze with 541.
In the women’s 50m pistol event, Tiyana won silver with a 519, just a point behind Aliyeva Khanna.
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