Olympian Gurpreet Singh came agonisingly close to becoming the world champion in men’s 25m Centre Fire Pistol event but eventually got a silver after losing on inner 10s to Ukraine’s Pavlo Korostylov at the Olympic Shooting Range here.
This was Gurpreet’s second individual medal in the World Championships, the first also being a silver won in 2018 at Changwon in the 25m Standard Pistol event.
India thus ended their campaign in third place with a total of 13 medals, including three gold, six silver and four bronze behind China.
The Indian shooter, who was placed ninth after the precision stage with a score of 288-8x (95,97,96), bounced back on the second day to shoot a brilliant score of 296-10x (98,99,99) in the rapid stage to clinch the silver medal.
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