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International Shooting Sport Federation: Indian shooters began their International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Championship Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun campaign in the Peruvian capital with two team golds in the men’s and women’s 10m air pistol.

With two gold medals India took pole position on the medal tally at the end of competition day one, with Romania and Chinese Taipei bagging the two individual golds on offer while five other nations also won medals on the day.

It was the junior men’s trio of Umesh Choudhary, Pradhyumn Singh and Mukesh Nelavalli, who put India on board first, after they topped the men’s team competition of the 10m air pistol comfortably with a tally of 1726 points. They were 10 ahead of second-placed Romania, while Italy took bronze with a 1707.