Tian jiaming

Olympian Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar:  Senior pro and Asian Games medalist Chain Singh, helped India earn their first medal of the on-going International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun stage being held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, winning bronze in the men’s 50m rifle 3 positions (3P), the first final on schedule on competition day two.

Hungarian Istvan Peni won gold (461.0), his seventh ISSF gold, while China’s Tian Jiaming (458.8) won silver, as Chain bowed out in third, after the penultimate shot of the 45-shot final with his score reading 443.7.

Earlier all three Indians led by two-time Olympian Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Niraj Kumar, besides Rio Olympian Chain, had qualified for the final, which had among others, reigning world champion Alexander Schmirl of Austria, in one of the starting lanes.