Pune: After winning the 10 M gold individual air gun, Manu Bhaker topped the podium once again when he won the yellow metal in the mixed team with Sarabjot Singh in the ISSF Junior World Championship in Lima, on Saturday.
A pair of Manu and Sarabjot beat Naveen and Shikha Narwal 16-12 in the All-India gold medal match.
This is Manu’s second gold in as many matches as possible.
He will participate in three more events at this meeting.
Manu-Sarabjot fulfilled the requirements after scoring 386 in the qualifying round, while Shikha-Naveen amounted to 385.
On a mixed 10m air rifle event, the pairs of Atmika Gupta and Rajpreet Singh showed the steel nerves when they played the race for the gold medal against the gold medalist against the Olympics of Mary Tucker and William Shaner.
Indians, playing in their first international meeting, losing to America 15-17 in the final biting nails.
Previously, on Friday, the Skeet Women’s Sekhon Skeet Team, Raiza Dhillon and Areba Khan won gold when they emptied Italian favorites 6-0 in a gold medal match.
The Rajrever Gill men’s skeet team, Ayush Rudraraju and Abhay Singh Sekhon took bronze after beating Turkey with the same 6-0.
World Championship Middle School Issf: Manu Bhaker Wins Second Gold
