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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
It was the junior men\u2019s trio of Umesh Choudhary, Pradhyumn Singh and Mukesh Nelavalli, who put India on board first, after they topped the men\u2019s 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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Umesh and Pradhyumn also made it to the individual finals with third and fourth-placed finishes in the qualification round. Umesh shot 580 and Pradhyumn 578 but missed out on individual medals with sixth and eighth place finishes, respectively.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Luca Joldea of Romania won gold and Chinese Taipei\u2019s Hsieh Hsiang-Chen won silver. Mukesh was ninth in qualification with a score of 574.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Then it was the turn of the junior women as the combination of Kanishka Dagar, Lakshita and Anjali Chaudhary tallied 1708 to clinch the junior women\u2019s 10m air pistol team gold. They pipped Azerbaijan by a point and bronze-winning Ukraine by four.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Kanishka also made the individual final in third place with a score of 573 along with Kanika, who also shot the same score but with lesser inner 10s, to bag the fifth qualifying spot.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In the final, while Kanishka finished eighth, Kanak won bronze with a score of 217.6, her first individual medal. Chinese Taipei\u2019s Chen Yu-Chun won gold, while Slovakia\u2019s Manja Slak won silver.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Kanishka also made the individual final in third place with a score of 573 along with Kanika, who also shot the same score but with lesser inner 10s, to bag the fifth qualifying spot.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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