Tokyo: Indian shooter bears a broken heart double on the first day of their competition at the Tokyo Olympics here on Saturday, with the biggest disappointment is the failure of Saurabh Chaudhary to win a medal after adding qualifications.
Chaudhary cannot replicate the form displayed in qualifications to complete the seventh in the 10m water pistol final.
His roommate and his friend Abhishek Verma could not make the final eight people, settled for 17th place with 575 in the event which was considered one of the best bets of India to complete the podium.
Iran Javad Foroughi, who entered the match in the form of red-hot after winning the World Cup in the lead, was named the new Olympic champion, finishing with a score of 244.8 in the final 24 shot.
Serbia Damir Mikec realized his dream of the Olympic medal in his fourth match, won silver with 237.9.
Games Beijing Champion Pang Wei from China won bronze with 217.6.
In the 10m Air Rifle event, the first Elavenil Valarivan timer and Apurvi Chandela also failed to qualify for the final, each of each respectively, in the range of Akasan.
Qian Wang China won the first gold medal ongoing after he shot an Olympic record of 251.8 in the final eight women.
Anastasiia Russian Olympics Anastasiia Galasiia claimed silver with 251.1 when Swiss Nina Christen took a bronze with 230.6.
After the sensational entry into the final, a lot of hope was pinned on the Chaudhary after a gloomy show by women.
But the script does not come out by the way the State Shooting Team will want it.
ACE India’s 137.4 shot was removed in seventh place.
Chaudhary did not get along with the best and, with a score of 47.7, eighth placed in the standings after the first five shots.
Asian games and gold-medal-medal-golden olympiad were positioned after the 12th shot, with a score of 117.2.
He managed to survive the first round of elimination but could not support it for a long time.
Everything is different in qualifications, with Chaudhary Shooting 586 to finish in front of the world class field, thanks 100 perfectly in the fourth series after back-to-back 98.
Verma is also in conflict to do trimming after trimming rally is extraordinary, but two 8 in the series Finally destroyed his expectations.
Chaudhary started the very good way, shoot 10 out of 10 before slipping in the second part of the first series.
Appeared in the Maiden Olympics, the 19-year-old World Cup gold medal then rallied from the 19th place, in the field of 36, until the inch closer to the top eight qualification points.
Previously on that day, the world number one Elavenil was finished 16th in qualifying after photographing 626.5 more than six series of 10 shots, while the more experienced apurvi, which is also a record holder of the final world in the event, settled for aggregate 36th 621.9.
Indians went to a decent start and even when APURVI slipped after the second series of disasters, with two scores of 9.5 and 9.9, the 21-year-old elavenyl tried to remain in the calculation with good performance in the third series, including perfect shooting 10.9.
However, Elavenil, the World Cup final gold medalist, could not maintain the same shape and some in the fifth and sixth series pushed it down.
APURVI, 28, who has won two world cup gold medals during his excellent round in 2019, has finished 34th in the Rio 2016 game.
Ironically, a 10m women’s water rifle is the first event where India won a quota for the Tokyo match with APURVI and Anjum Moudgil claims them at the 2018 World Championship in Changwon, Korea.
Moudgil quota is given to Elavenil based on running the last form through the Olympic selection cycle.
Saurabh Chaudhary finished seventh in the final 10m pistol
