Shooting World C’ships 2023: Mehuli Ghosh wins 10m air rifle bronze; secures Olympic quota spot

India’s Mehuli Ghosh won bronze in the women’s 10m air rifle at the International Shooting Sport Federation World Championship in Baku, Azerbaijan and a Paris Olympic quota place to go along with it.

The Indian, who had earlier in the day topped qualifying with a sizzling 634.5, shot 229.8 in the 24-shot eight-woman final to finish in third place at the end of 22-shots. China won gold and silver with Han Jiayu finishing with 251.4 and Wang Zhilin who ended with 250.2.

15-year-old Tilottama Sen however won hearts with a brilliant fourth place finish.

Ghosh also won a gold on the day teaming up with Sen and Ramita to win the 10m air rifle women’s team competition with a combined total of 1895.9, ahead of China who totalled 1893.7. Germany won bronze.

After the final, Ghosh said, “I was very excited and nervous for the final. In-fact I can still feel the nerves. There was very little difference between each one of us. It was very exciting and I am happy with the result.”

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A first individual World Championships medal for Mehuli Ghosh to go with a 2024 Paris Olympics quota place for India!https://t.co/n44U6AmHFr pic.twitter.com/MRJ6DRF72i— The Field (@thefield_in) August 19, 2023

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