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International Shooting Sport Federation: Teenager Parth Rakesh Mane finished seventh in the 10m air rifle men’s final at the hallowed Olympic Shooting range in Munich, as India took many positives at the end of the competition on the first day of the year’s second International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Rifle/Pistol leg.

The youngster from Maharashtra had earlier shattered the junior national record with an effort of 633.6 in qualification, which gave him third spot in the classy 149-strong field. Korea and China shared the two gold medals on the day. Parth’s qualification score was bettered only by the eventual gold medallist and former 50m rifle three positions (3P) Olympic champion Zhang Changhong (636.3) of China and Paris silver medallist Victor Lindgren (633.9) of Sweden.

Mane began the final with a solid 10.8 and even finished the first five-shot series with the same score, finding himself in fourth at that stage with just 0.7 separating the leader Chang from fifth-placed Peter Gorsa, the Croatian legend. Korean Shin Minki then shot a perfect 10.9 to begin the second five-shot series, and Mane found himself sliding down to eighth after a high-scoring second series.