Indian shooters Anish Bhanwala, Adarsh SIngh and Vijayveer Sidhu combined to win the gold medal in the 25m rapid fire pistol team event as the nation ended the ISSF Junior World Championship on top of the standings.
Olympian Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar then clinched the Junior Men’s 50M Rifle 3 Positions gold to make it a clean sweep for India in the two medal events.
Manu Bhaker winning her second gold of the tournament, this time in partnership with Sarabjot Singh in the 10m air pistol mixed team event.
Rudrankksh Patil, Dhanush Srikanth and Paarth Makhija made it to the junior men's 10m Air Rifle finals with scores of 630.2, 629.6 and 629.2 respectively in the qualification round to make the cut for the top eight.
The general body election of the NRAI had representation from 59 of its members, out of whom 56 voted in favour of Raninder, while 3 votes were cast in favour of his opponent Shyam Singh Yadav.
In view of the ministry order, the elections are set to be declared null and void.
It's the second straight time in five Olympics that the Indian shooters are returning from the Games empty-handed, having met the same fate at the 2016 Rio Games five years ago.
Indian shooters failed to fire at the Olympics for the second straight time and Rana said it is not fair on the part of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) president Singh to blame him for the debacle.
The cocking lever of Bhaker's pistol broke after the 16th shot in the qualifications and in getting it fixed, the 19-year-old shooter lost more than 15 minutes, which affected her rhythm when she resumed shooting.
India's medal hopes -- Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker -- finished seventh in Qualification Stage 2 in the air pistol mixed team event on Tuesday.
Indian shooters Deepak Kumar and Divyansh Singh Panwar finished a lowly 26th and 32nd, respectively, in the men's 10m air rifle event of the Tokyo Olympics.
The federation is working with the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) in this regard and there are chances that the number of support staff could go up.
Both Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa drove all the way from their training base in Montecatini, Italy to Zagreb to get jabbed on Thursday.
Mittal won his double trap world title in 2018 and got the Arjuna award the same year, while Moudgil is a world championship silver-medallist and was awarded the Arjuna in 2019.
Thirteen Olympic-bound pistol and rifle shooters are currently training in Zagreb after having participated as guest invitees in the European Championship recently in Osijek.
The Olympic-bound Indian shooting team is currently in Croatia on a training-cum-competition tour, at the end of which, it will fly directly to Tokyo.
Considering the grim situation of the pandemic, the NRAI is keen that its athletes are vaccinated soon.
Indian shooters have secured an unprecedented 15 Olympic quota places for the country but, as per the federation's selection policy, the final team will be picked taking into the account the scores in all tournaments and trials leading up to the Games.
A dominant India claimed both the gold medals on offer by some distance in the men's and women's 10m air pistol team events on the third competition day.
The unnamed coach is asymptomatic and is in quarantine at the moment; other members of the Indian contingent returned negative.
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