Tokyo: Indian shooter Deepak Kumar and Divyansh Singh Panwar, each completed 26 and 32, in the Tokyo Olympic 10m air gun event here on Sunday, failed to recover from a bad start in qualifying.
It will always be a difficult task for both Indian shooters after they start with 102.9 (Deepak) and 102.7 (Divyansh) in the argument range.
Deepak agregates 624.7 While Divyansh shot 622.8 more than six series and could not make the final.
They were never in the picture and things remained worse as a series of scores ranging from 9.7 to 9.9 damaging their qualifications consisting of 47 participants including big names like Istvan Peni of Hungary, Lucas Kozeniesky, Petar Gorsa from Croatia And the Russian Olympics Sergey Kamisenkiy’s Sergey Kamisskiy.
While Deepak did shoot 105.2 and 105.3 in the fourth and sixth series, he needed it at the beginning of the match to arrange himself well.
This was after the Indian Air Force officer who was not assigned to find him four spots from the base of the stack.
The sequence of Deepak scores read 102.9 103.8 103.7 105.2 103.8 and 105, while Divyansh has 102.7 103.7 104.6 and 103.6.
Haoran Yang’s China entered the final of the eight people with the score of the Olympic qualification record 632.7.
Previous record (630.2) was held by Italian star Niccolo Camriani.