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India's shooting contingent got off to a poor start at the Paris Olympics 2024 on July 27. The 12-year-old medal drought continued as Indian pair of Ramita Jindal, Arjun Babuta and Elavenil Valarivan, Sandeep Singh crashed out of 10m air rifle mixed team qualification.
Ramita and Babuta had a combined score of 628.7 and finished sixth. Elavenil and Sandeep were too far behind as they finished with 626.3 points. They were 12th on the list and crashed out of the qualification round.
Babuta got off to a good start in the second relay. She had a sequence of 10.5, 10.6, 106, 10.9 whereas Ramita managed 10.2, 10.7, 10.3, 10.1 but it wasn't enough to get them in the medal round.
Paris Olympics 2024 medals tally
The top spot belonged to People's Republic of China. Yuting Huang and Sheng Lihao with 632.2 points bagged the first spot. The top four teams qualified for the medal round. Republic of Korea's Jihyeon Keum, Hajun Park, Kazakhstan's Alexandra LE (631.4), Islam Satpayev and Germany's Anna Janssen (630.8), Maximilian Ulbrich (629.7) made it to the next round.
Full squad
Rifle: Men’s 10m air rifle: Sandeep Singh, Arjun Babuta Women’s 10m air rifle: Elavenil Valarivan, Ramita Jindal Women’s 50m rifle 3 positions: Sift Kaur Samra, Anjum Moudgil Men’s 50m rifle 3 positions: Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Swapnil Kusale 10m air rifle mixed team: Sandeep Singh/Elavenil Valarivan, Arjun Babuta/Ramita Jindal Pistol: Men’s 10m air pistol: Sarabjot Singh, Arjun Cheema Women’s 10m air pistol: Manu Bhaker, Rhythm Sangwan Men’s 25m rapid fire pistol: Anish Bhanwala, Vijayveer Sidhu Women’s 25m pistol: Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh 10m air pistol mixed team: Sarabjot Singh/Manu Bhaker, Arjun Singh Cheema/Rhythm Sangwan Shotgun: Men’s trap: Prithviraj Tondaiman Women’s trap: Rajeshwari Kumari, Shreyasi Singh Men’s skeet: Anantjeet Singh Naruka Women’s skeet: Maheshwari Chauhan, Raiza Dhillon Skeet mixed team: Anantjeet Singh Naruka/Maheshwari Chauhan.
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