Agencies
NEW DELHI, Apr 15: Indian shooters will look to maintain their impressive form when they take to the range in the ISSF World Cup beginning here from Tuesday. The Indian team finished a creditable second in the year's first World Cup for rifle, pistol and shotgun shooters in Buenos Aires last week.
On the first competition day in the capital city of Peru, the likes of Manu Bhaker, Suruchi and Sainyam will be in action in the women's air pistol competition, while Saurabh Chaudhary, Varun Tomar and Ravinder will take another shot at gold in the men's air pistol event at the Las Palmas range. Both the men's and women's 10m air pistol finals are scheduled for Tuesday.
Close to 400 shooters from 43 countries, including a 35-member Indian contingent, will compete across 15 events in the three disciplines of rifle, pistol and shotgun over the next week, to establish early supremacy with the blue-riband ISSF World Championships coming up at the end of the year.
India finished second to China in the first leg which concluded last week in Argentina. The squad had won four gold and a total of eight medals.
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