Overview

• Arya Borse and Arjun Babuta entered the gold medal match with a combined qualification score of 635.2, just 0.7 points shy of the world record set by Zifei Wang and Lihao Sheng.
• After trailing 0-2, the Indian duo won 13 of the next 14 series, building an unassailable lead and closing out the match in 12 series.
• Norway’s Jeanette Hegg Duestad and Jon-Hermann Hegg claimed bronze with a 16-14 victory over the USA’s Sagen Maddalena and Peter Matthew Fiori.
• This mixed team gold marked India’s second top podium finish of the event following Suruchi Phogat’s hat-trick of World Cup wins in the 10m air pistol earlier in the week.
• China topped the standings with six medals and Norway’s four-medal performance placed them ahead of India in second overall.