Sifts wins bronze in Munich, but Arjun disappoints

Two months after she shot her maiden senior World Cup gold, Sift Kaur Samra stood on the podium again, this time clinching the third place at the ongoing Munich World Cup on Thursday.

- Shantanu Srivastava

NEW DELHI:

The 23-year-old shot 453.1 to finish behind Norway's Jeanette Hegg Duestad (466.9) and Swiss 16-year-old Emely Jaeggi (464.8).

Sift, a Paris Olympian, was the only Indian in the final with compatriot Ashi Chouksey ending 11th. Sift was placed second after the qualification with a score of 592 behind France's Agathe Cecile Girard, who also shot the same score but had five more inner-10s than the Indian. Asian Games bronze medallist Chouksey missed the finals by two points—she shot 589—but an impressive inner-10 count of 34 underlined her form.