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Moudgil finished at the 18th position with a final score of 584 at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre while Samra, who was one of India’s medal hopes in shooting ahead of the Paris Olympics, finishing as low as 31st with a final score of 575. read more
 "Sift Kaur Samra, Anjum Moudgil fail to qualify for women's 50m rifle 3 positions final")
File image of Indian shooter Sift Kaur Samra. PTI
World record holder Sift Kaur Samra and Anjum Moudgil couldn’t add to India’s rich medal haul in shooting at the Paris Olympics as they failed to qualify for the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions final on Thursday.
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Moudgil finished at the 18th position with a final score of 584 at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre. What was even more surprising was Samra, who was one of India’s medal hopes in shooting ahead of the Paris Olympics, finishing as low as 31st with a final score of 575.
Samra, after all, had won individual gold as well as team silver in the 50m rifle 3 positions event in last year’s Asian Games in Hangzhou, breaking the world record (469.6) along the way.
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The disappointment followed success in the men’s 50m rifle 3P in which 28-year-old Swapnil Kusale won India their third shooting medal in the Paris Games, collecting bronze with a final score of 451.4 points.
The medal would prove historic as India would win three medals in the same sport in the same edition of the Olympics for the first time ever.
India also won bronze in the 10m air pistol mixed team and women’s individual events earlier in the Paris Games, with 22-year-old Manu Bhaker starring in both victories.
Jhajjar native Bhaker won the individual bronze on Sunday with a final score of 221.7 to help India win their first Olympic shooting medal since the 2012 London Games.
Two days later, she would team up with Sarabjot Singh to defeat South Korea’s Oh Ye-jin and Lee Wonho 16-10 to not only help the country win its first team medal in shooting at the Olympics, but also become the first Indian athlete post-Independence and only the second overall to win two medals in the same edition of the Olympics.
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