ISSF World Cup 2025: India finishes 2nd on medals tally….Manu Bhaker disappoints fans

ISSF World Cup 2025 Buenos Aires: India finishes the Buenos Aires leg of the ISSF World Cup 2025 second on the medals tally behind China. While China topped with 11 medals, India bagged total 8 medals with 4 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals.

Medal winners for India are:

Gold medal winners

• Vijayveer Sidhu became the first Indian ever to win a gold medal in the men’s 25m rapid fire pistol event in ISSF World Cup history.
• Sift Kaur Samra in the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions event
• Rudrankksh Patil in the men’s 10m air rifle event
• Suruchi Singh in the women’s 10m air pistol event

Silver medal winners

• Esha Singh in the women’s 25m pistol event
• Arya Borse/Rudrankksh Patil in the mixed 10m air rifle event

Bronze medal winners

• Saurabh Chaudhary/Suruchi Singh in the 10m air pistol mixed team  event
• Chain Singh in the men’s 50m rifle 3 positions event

A total of 410 shooters from 45 National Shooting Federations participated in the  ISSF World Cup Buenos Aires 2025, out of which 14 countries won medals in the event.

The 18-year-old Suruchi Singh was very impressive in her run to her first-ever World Cup medal and title. To do so, she got the better of early leader Qian Wei and her teammates Jiang Ranxin and Yao Qianxun. Qian fell behind Suruchi at the second elimination round and chased the Indian for the rest of the competition. Suruchi finished on a total of 244.6, while Qian scored 241.9.

Vijayveer Sidhu had a close encounter in the men’s 25m rapid fire pistol final, beating Riccardo Mazzetti on the final shot.Sidhu started the first series with just one successful hit from five. It remained tied going into the final five shots, which saw Sidhu and Mazzetti miss one each going into the final shot. While Sidhu scored, the Italian missed, giving the Indian the gold medal.

Wonderful to see @SChaudhary2002 on an ISSF podium once again & Suruchi for the second time on the podium at the season-opening ISSF World Cup in Argentina 🇦🇷 The pair won 🥉 in air pistol mixed team on the final day.#ISSFWorldCup #IndianShooting #ShootingStars #India pic.twitter.com/4wiz7wztup

— NRAI (@OfficialNRAI) April 11, 2025

Two bronze medal winners in the 2024 Paris Olympics, Manu Bhakher, failed to win a single medal at the Buenos Aires event.

Swapnil Kusale and Sarabjot Singh, who won the bronze medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics, also did not compete in Buenos Aires.

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