India added two more medals to their tally on Day-2 of the ongoing ISSF World Cup after Rhythm Sangwan and Varun Tomar won 10m Air Pistol mixed team silver and Narmada Nithin & Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil took bronze in Air Rifle mixed team event, here on Thursday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In the Pistol mixed team event, Rhythm and Varun suffered an 11-17 loss at the hands of the Chinese team of Wei Qian and Jinyao Liu in the gold medal playoff and had to settle for a silver.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
It was a double delight for China as the mixed pair of Xue Li and Pengqi Hu pocketed the bronze with a dominating 16-0 win over Germany in the bronze medal playoff.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Earlier in the 60-shot qualification round, India was placed second with a 581-22x score behind top-placed China (586-23x) to make it to the gold medal match.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In the Rifle mixed team event, Naramada and Rudrankksh, who finished third in the qualifications with 632.0, defeated China's Qiongyue Zhang and Haonan Yu 16-8 to take the bronze medal.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
After finishing in the top two in the qualification round, China's Yuting Huang & Lihao Sheng and Germany's Eszter Denes & Istvan Pene faced off in a gold medal match where China trounced Germany 16-2 to clinch the top spot on the podium.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
So far, host nation India has won four medals (one gold and a silver with two bronze), sitting second on the medal table. On the other hand, China is on top of the tally with three golds and two bronze medals.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
On Wednesday, China and India ended competition day one with an identical medal tally of one gold and a bronze.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
India's Sarabjot Singh clinched gold and compatriot Varun Tomar bagged the bronze medal in the 10m Air Pistol men's event while China's Li Xue defeated two-time world championship medallist Doreen Veenekamp of Germany 17-5 in the women's 10m Air Pistol gold medal match on Day 1.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Another Qian Wei bagged the bronze by finishing the ranking round in third place with a score of 250.2.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
India's Sarabjot Singh clinched gold and compatriot Varun Tomar bagged the bronze medal in the 10m Air Pistol men's event while China's Li Xue defeated two-time world championship medallist Doreen Veenekamp of Germany 17-5 in the women's 10m Air Pistol gold medal match on Day 1.<\/p>\r\n\r\n