It's A Double Delight For India At The Shooting World Cup As Anjum-Divyansh And Manu-Saurabh Clinch Gold Medals

Shooting is no more an individual sport. Head-to-head duel, which was missing from the sport, has finally arrived. And the Indian shooters reacted to the introduction of new rules by winning gold medals in the 10m air rifle and 10m air pistol mixed events at the ISSF World Cup in Beijing. 

 To make the mixed events more television friendly, the International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) implemented new rules to the team events. The new format has qualifications, quarterfinals, semifinals and final where the teams are paired against each other according to their rankings. Top team faces of with the bottom-ranked team, as it happens in archery. 

On Thursday, the pair of Anjum Moudgil and Divyansh Singh Panwar won gold in the air rifle event beating China's Yang Haoran and Liu Ruxuan, while in the pistol mixed event, the duo of Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker too defeated Chinese, Pang Wei and Jiang Ranxin to win the final.