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ISSF World Junior Championship: Indian shooters clinch two more bronzes at 25m standard pistol team event
•With the two medals on day seven of competitions, India maintained second place in the standings behind China, with four gold, five silver and five bronze medals
Jaspal Rana back as Manu Bhaker's personal coach two years after widely-publicised split
•Manu's split with Rana was attributed as the main reason for her forgettable performance in Tokyo, where she also suffered a pistol malfunction that almost left her in tears
Asian Airgun Championship: Mehuli Ghosh defeats local favourite Eunyoung Cho to win 10m air rifle gold
•Ghosh finished behind Cho in the ranking round with a score of 261.1 but beat the South Korean 16-12 in the gold medal match.
National Shooting Championships: Divyansh Singh Panwar wins both senior, junior 10m air rifle titles
•Maharashtra's Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil came second with 249.3 while Assam's Hriday Hazarika won the bronze with a score of 228.2 in the senior men's event
National Shooting Championships: Rahi Sarnobat wins women's 25m pistol event; Manu Bhaker collects bronze
•Maharashtra's Sarnobat shot a solid 37 in a top draw final to see off young and in-form challengers to her crown.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Saurabh Chaudhury loses rhythm and final, gains perspective
Amit Kamath •Finals are where legends are written and the highly rated Saurabh never recovered from his initial shots which consigned him to last place after five.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: India's Divyansh Singh Panwar one of eight mock contestants in final shooting dress rehearsal
•Alongside the experienced Deepak Kumar, the 18-year-old Divyansh will represent India in the men's 10m air rifle event on Sunday, the second competition day at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Indian shooters to begin training at venue from Monday with quarantine not required
•The Indian shooting team, which arrived in Tokyo in the wee hours on Saturday, have not been asked to undergo quarantine due to them shifting their base to Europe from India in the build-up to the Games.
ISSF World Cup: Saurabh Chaudhary wins bronze in men's 10m air pistol to open India’s account at Osijek
•The 19-year-old Saurabh scored 220 in the final after qualifying with a score of 581. Compatriot Abhishek Verma finished fifth in the same event with a score of 179.3 after also shooting 581 in the qualifying.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: NRAI tells coaches to communicate through 'proper channel' to avoid confusion ahead of Games
•Proper channel, in this case, means using the federation's media department as the contact point, an NRAI source told PTI on Tuesday.