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New Delhi: India’s Sheeraz Sheikh finished sixth in the men’s Skeet event on the final day of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup here on Thursday.<\/p>\nNew Delhi: India’s Sheeraz Sheikh finished sixth in the men’s Skeet event on the final day of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup here on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Sheikh produced the best performance of his career, shooting 121 in qualifying and even getting the better of former world champion and World No.8 Jesper Hensen of Denmark in a shoot-off for a place in the final round.<\/p>\n
But he fizzled out in the final and could only manage to take the sixth spot.<\/p>\n
This was Sheeraz’ first ever World Cup final in his seven-year career and it comes on the back of another final appearance in the recently held Asian Shotgun Championships in Abu Dhabi, where he finished fifth.<\/p>\n
The gold went to Italy’s Riccardo Filippelli, who beat compatriot and reigning Olympic champion Gabriele Rossetti in the final. Paul Adams of Australia got the bronze medal.<\/p>\n
India finished with five medals — one gold, two silver and two bronze. The hosts are at the fifth place in the medals tally behind table toppers China, Italy, Australia and Japan.<\/p>\n
It has arguably been one of India’s best finishes at the World Cup with former Asian champion Jitu Rai winning their lone gold in the men’s 50m Pistol event apart from a bronze in the 10m Air Pistol.<\/p>\n
Amanpreet Singh and Ankur Mittal clinched silver medals in men’s 50m Pistol and men’s Double Trap respectively while Pooja Ghatkar got bronze in the women’s Air Rifle event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: India’s Sheeraz Sheikh finished sixth in the men’s Skeet event on the final day of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup here on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Sheikh produced the best performance of his career, shooting 121 in qualifying and even getting the better of former world champion and World No.8 Jesper Hensen of Denmark in a shoot-off for a place in the final round.<\/p>\n
But he fizzled out in the final and could only manage to take the sixth spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[466,18327,6597,21651,13537],"class_list":["post-33763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-shooting","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-international-shooting-sport-federation","tag-issf-world-cup","tag-sheeraz-sheikh","tag-shooting-news"],"yoast_head":"\n