Issf World Championships

ISSF World Championships: Sift Kaur Samra confirms Olympic quota with fifth-place finish in 50m rifle 3P

India have now won three Paris Olympic quota places at the Worlds in Baku, with Mehuli Ghosh in the women's 10m air rifle and Akhil Sheoran in the men's 50m Rifle 3-Positions being the other two.

ISSF World Championships: Akhil Sheoran clinches Olympic quota; India win team gold in men's 3P, women's 25m pistol

Sheoran became the fifth Indian shooter to bag a quota for the Paris Olympics with a bronze in the men’s rifle 3-positions and would also win team gold with Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Niraj Kumar.

ISSF World Championships: Mehuli Ghosh confirms Paris Olympics quota with 10m air rifle bronze

Mehuli shot 229.8 in the final to ensure a podium finish behind Chinese duo Jiayu Han (251.4) and Zhilin Wang (250.2). In the Air Rifle event, the top three shooters are guaranteed Olympic quota places.

ISSF World Championships: Indian shooters draw blank in men's skeet, 10m air rifle events

A day after Shiva Narwal and Esha Singh won gold in the 10m air pistol mixed team event, Indian shooters came up with underwhelming performances in the men’s skeet and 10m air rifle individual and team events.

ISSF World Championship: India's Esha Singh and Shiva Narwal win 10m air pistol mixed team gold

The Indian duo defeated the Turkish pair of Ilayda Tarhan and Yusuf Dikec 16-10 in the gold-medal match to take the country's medal tally to two.

ISSF World Championships: India finish day four with 13 medals

India remain second in the standings behind China with 13 medals (five gold, two silver and six bronze).

ISSF World Championships: Rudrankksh Patil, Arjun Babuta, Kiran Jadhav win India's fifth gold

Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patel secured the top spot at ISSF World Championship in 10m rifle individual final. Patil came from behind to win with a score of 17-13

ISSF World Championships: Udhayveer Singh's double gold sees India consolidate second place at Worlds

Udhayveer won both the junior men's 25m and standard pistol titles while Esha Singh clinched the junior women's 25m pistol crown as India ended the day with four gold and three bronze medals to lie behind China

After Asian Games success, shooter Rahi Sarnobat sets her sights on winning gold at Tokyo Olympics

A rare feat recently achieved, Asian Games gold medal-winning shooter Rahi Sarnobat has now trained her eyes on scripting another history — a medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Listen: Full script of Episode 41 of Spodcast where we discuss MC Mary Kom's assured medal, ISSF Championships and more

MC Mary Kom in International Silesian Championship 48kg final, India women's cricket team victory — we discuss all this and more on Spodcast, Firspost's daily sports podcast.