Indian shooter Swapnil Kusale won the bronze decoration in the men’s 50m rifle 3 positions last at the Paris 2024 Olympics shooting rivalry on Thursday.
This was India’s very first Olympic shooting award in the 50m 3P and the third decoration in rifle firing after Abhinav Bindra’s gold in men’s 10m air rifle at Beijing 2008 and Gagan Narang’s bronze in a similar occasion at London 2012.
Taking shots at the Public Shooting Place in Ch̢teauroux, Kusale was 6th after the initial 15 shots in bowing situations with 153.3 Рtwo off Norweigian shooter Jon-Hermann, who drove the field at the point.
Nonetheless, some steady shooting in the three series in inclined position and two series in standing positions, saw the 28-year-old Indian shooter move up to third toward the finish of stage 1, following which the last two shooters were wiped out.
With one end after each and every shot in stage 2 from that point onward, Kusale shot 10.5, 9.4 and 9.9 with his next three shots to stand firm on his foothold in the best three and affirmed a decoration.
Notwithstanding, a 10.0 with the following shot wasn’t sufficient to save him in conflict for the gold.
Individuals’ Republic of China’s Liu Yukun, the world record holder in the occasion, won the gold decoration with 463.6 while Ukraine’s Serhiy Kulish (461.3) got his second Olympic silver to add to his previous one from Rio 2016. Kusale counted 451.4.
Kusale had before made the eight-man last on Wednesday by completing seventh in the qualifiers with a sum of 590. Individual Indian shooter Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar had missed the cut in the wake of completing eighth.
India has now won three decorations at the Paris 2024 Olympics up until this point and every one of them have come in shooting.
Before Kusale, Manu Bhaker won a bronze in the ladies’ 10m air gun individual occasion prior to collaborating with Sarabjot Singh for one more decoration of a similar variety in the 10m air gun blended group.
