Indian shooter Swapnil Kusale won India’s third Paris 2024 Olympics quota place at the ongoing ISSF World Championship in Cairo, Egypt yesterday. It was Kusale’s fourth-place finish in the men’s 50 meter rifle 3 positions event that earned him the quota. Kusale, who shot a qualification score of 593 to qualify for the eight-shooter final at the second spot, was in contention for the gold-medal match too but a low 8.2 in his final shot in the eighth series in the final denied him a medal. He is also an ISSF World Cup gold medalist.
Rhythm Sangwan missed a quota place narrowly in the women’s 25 meter pistol as India also picked up two more medals on the day with a 1-2 finish in the 10 meter air pistol mixed team junior competition. India’s tally from the World Championship now stands at 32 medals, including 12 gold, eight silver and 12 bronze medals and they remain firmly in second place behind China in the standings. They have also now won two Paris quotas at the event, with Rudrankksh Patil picking up the first in the men’s 10 meter air rifle, earlier in the championship. India’s first Paris quota in shooting was won by Bhowneesh Mendiratta in the men’s trap event at the Shotgun World Championship in Osijek, Croatia.