Park haijun

ISSF World Cup: Indian shooters’ medal drought at the ISSF Rifle/Pistol World Cup in Ningbo, China, stretched into day three on Thursday, with Divyansh Singh Panwar, Umamahesh Maddineni and Rahi Sarnobat all bowing out in qualification rounds.

The highlight of the day came from Italy’s Danilo Sollazzo, who set a new world record in the men’s 10m air rifle final. Sollazzo, the 2022 Cairo World Championship runner-up to India’s Rudrankksh Patil and fifth-place finisher at the Paris Olympics, shot a scintillating 255.0 to eclipse reigning Olympic champion Sheng Lihao’s previous mark by half a point.

Sheng, the home favourite, had to settle for silver with 253.5 while Korea’s Park Haijun took bronze.