Dominant Arya-Arjun pair wins gold for India in 10m air rifle mixed team event
Borse and Babuta were in fine fettle when it mattered the most to win the top prize in the prestigious tournament, not giving the Chinese an inch.
Arya Borse and Arjun Babuta
MUNICH: India's Arya Borse and Arjun Babuta dished out a thoroughly dominant performance and outplayed China's reigning Olympic and world champion duo Zifei Wang and Lihao Sheng 17-7 to win the gold medal in the 10m air rifle mixed team event of the ISSF World Cup on Saturday.
Arya and Arjun were in fine fettle when it mattered the most to win the top prize in the prestigious tournament, not giving the Chinese an inch.
The Indian duo entered the gold medal round after aggregating 635.2 in the qualifications, just (.7) behind Wang and Sheng (635.9), which is also the qualifications world record.
Arya had paired with Rudrankksh Patil to win the 10m air rifle mixed team silver in the World Cup in Lima, Peru, earlier this year.
The other Indian pair in the event, Elavenil Valarivan and Ankush Jadhav finished sixth in the qualifications with 631.8.
Norway's Jeanette Hegg Duestad and Jon-Hermann Hegg bagged the bronze medal with a 16-14 victory over the USA's Sagen Maddalena and Peter Matthew Fiori.
This is India's fourth medal and second gold in the ongoing World Cup after Suruchi Singh's gold medal and the two bronze won by Sift Kaur Samra and Elavenil in their respective individual events earlier this week.
In the 10m air pistol mixed team event, the combo of Manu Bhaker and Aditya Malra ended sixth with a combined total of 577 in the qualifications, while Suruchi Singh and Varun Tomar were placed 10th with 576.
