<p class="title">There was no stopping the golden run of India's junior shooters with Hriday Hazarika claiming the men's 10m air rifle top honours before the women's team combined for a new world record and gold at the ISSF World Championships here Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Hazarika, the lone Indian to qualify for the men's final with a score of 627.3, was tied with Iran's Mohammed Amir Nekounam on 250.1 once the field was pruned to the regulation top eight.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But the 17-year-old Indian clinched the yellow metal after prevailing in a shoot-off at the prestigious International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) tournament.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bronze went to Russia's Grigorii Shamakov, who managed a score of 228.6 in the final.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The women's 10m air rifle team of Elavenil Valarivan (631), Shreya Agarwal (628.5) and Manini Kaushik (621.2) then produced a sensational performance to total 1880.7 for a gold with a world record to boot.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The score by Elavenil, a junior world cup gold-medallist, was also a new junior world record.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The men's team, comprising Hazarika, Divyansh Panwar and Arjun Babuta, finished fourth with a combined total of 1872.3.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There was disappointment for the country in the senior men's 50m rifle three position competition as none of the Indians in fray managed to make the cut for the finals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Asian Games silver-medallist Sanjeev Rajput was the lowest placed Indian at 58th with a score of 1158.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Swapnil Kusale was 55th with a score of 1161 while Akhil Sheoran took the 44th position with 1167.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Indian team, comprising the trio, ended 11th with a total of 3503.</p>
<p class="title">There was no stopping the golden run of India's junior shooters with Hriday Hazarika claiming the men's 10m air rifle top honours before the women's team combined for a new world record and gold at the ISSF World Championships here Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Hazarika, the lone Indian to qualify for the men's final with a score of 627.3, was tied with Iran's Mohammed Amir Nekounam on 250.1 once the field was pruned to the regulation top eight.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But the 17-year-old Indian clinched the yellow metal after prevailing in a shoot-off at the prestigious International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) tournament.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bronze went to Russia's Grigorii Shamakov, who managed a score of 228.6 in the final.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The women's 10m air rifle team of Elavenil Valarivan (631), Shreya Agarwal (628.5) and Manini Kaushik (621.2) then produced a sensational performance to total 1880.7 for a gold with a world record to boot.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The score by Elavenil, a junior world cup gold-medallist, was also a new junior world record.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The men's team, comprising Hazarika, Divyansh Panwar and Arjun Babuta, finished fourth with a combined total of 1872.3.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There was disappointment for the country in the senior men's 50m rifle three position competition as none of the Indians in fray managed to make the cut for the finals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Asian Games silver-medallist Sanjeev Rajput was the lowest placed Indian at 58th with a score of 1158.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Swapnil Kusale was 55th with a score of 1161 while Akhil Sheoran took the 44th position with 1167.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Indian team, comprising the trio, ended 11th with a total of 3503.</p>