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India Extends Lead at Junior World Cup as Rashmika–Kapil Win Mixed Air Pistol Gold and Italy Sweeps Skeet

Mixed team success pushed the hosts clear on the medals table at New Delhi’s junior showcase.

Overview

  • Rashmika Sahgal and Kapil beat compatriots Jonathan Gavin Antony and Vanshika Chaudhary 16-10 to take the junior 10m air pistol mixed team title after topping qualification 582 to 578.
  • Spain’s Ines Ortega Castro and Lucas Sanchez Tome edged Iran’s Parimah Amiri and Mohammadreza Ahmadi 16-14 for the mixed team bronze.
  • Italy took both skeet golds, with Marco Coco winning the junior men’s final (56/60) and Arianna Nember claiming the junior women’s title with 53 hits.
  • India’s Raiza Dhillon won women’s skeet silver with 51 and Mansi Raghuwanshi earned bronze with 41, while Finland’s Lassi Akseli Matias Kauppinen and Cyprus’s Andreas Pontikis took men’s skeet silver and bronze.
  • India leads the medals table with 11 medals (three gold, five silver, three bronze), building on Jonathan Gavin Antony’s men’s 10m air pistol gold and Rashmika Sahgal’s individual silver on Day 2.