Lonato
India shooter Prithviraj Tondaiman bagged a bronze medal in the men’s trap event at the ISSF Shotgun World Cup Lonato 2023 on Sunday.
Prithviraj Tondaiman’s bronze was India’s only medal at the Lonato shooting meet. This medal also marked his second individual ISSF World Cup medal, having won a bronze in Doha earlier in March.
A total of six shooters qualified for the men’s trap final. Tondaiman finished third in the final with 34 points. Britain shooter Nathan Hales won the gold medal with 49 points while Qi Ying of the Republic of China clinched the silver medal with 48 points.
Earlier, Prithviraj Tondaiman finished third in the qualifying round with 122 points. The 36-year-old shooter scored 23, 25, 24, 25, 25 in the five-round qualification series.
Paris 2024 Olympics quota winners Bhowneesh Mendiratta and Zoravar Singh Sandhu failed to progress beyond the qualification stage in the men’s trap event.
Mendiratta finished 16th with 120 points while Sandhu was 66th with 115 points. While Indian shooters, Lakshjeet Singh Sindhu and Lakshay were shooting for ranking points.
Meanwhile, in the women’s trap event, none of the Indian shooters managed to go past the qualification round.
Commonwealth Games 2018 champion, Shreyasi Singh, finished 36th with 111 points while Manisha Keer (111 points) and Rajeshwari Kumari (106) finished in 39th and 58th positions respectively. While Pragati Dubey and Kirti Gupta were shooting for the ranking points. In the skeet events, too, the Indian shooters put on a disappointing show.
