Tokyo Olympics: Shooting LIVE Day 1, 24 July - Saurabh Chaudhary eliminated - Updates, Scores, Result, Medal, Blog
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Saurabh Chaudhary will be competing in Men's 10m Air Pistol Final (Times of India)
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The star Indian pistol shooter, Saurabh Chaudhary faltered in the final to finish seventh in the Men's 10m Air Pistol with a score of 137.4. The Meerut boy who was on fire in the qualification round, looked far from his best in the final as he crumbled under the pressure.
Iran's Javad Foroughi is the Olympic Champion in Men's 10m air pistol, while Serbia's Mikec Damir and the Chinese Wei Pang settled for silver and bronze, respectively.
Earlier, Abhishek Verma was failed to qualify for Men's 10m air pistol final whereas the women's 10m air rifle duo of Elavenil Valarivan and Apurvi Chandela too had the same fate.
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It was supposed to be India's day at the Asaka Shooting Range in Tokyo today. Only that it was not.
Complete heartbreak for the shooters, who seemed to have crumbled badly under the pressure of the Olympics. If Abhishek Verma's two bad shots at the end of the qualification round when the pressure was at its peak led to him not qualifying for the final, it was the young Saurabh Chaudhary's turn to replicate that in the final.
The women rifle shooters, on the other hand, looked completely out of sorts and were never really in contention to enter the final.
Much like all the sports fans in India right now, even I do no have words to express the disappointments.
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Iran's Foroughi is the Olympic Champion with a score of 244.8, while Serbia's Damir settles for the silver with 237.9.
Iran's Javed Foroughi and Serbia's Mikec Damir are the final two shooters remaining in Men's 10m Air Pistol final.
Wei Pang of China takes home the bronze medal with a score of 217.6.
A poor 8.4 under pressure means that Ukraine's Pavlov Korostylov means that he misses out on a podium by a whisker. He was second before this shot. One shot, that's all it took for him to exit!
Germany's Christian Reitz takes the fifth spot with a score of 176.6.
A very big heartbreak of India as the country's ace pistol shooter Saurabh Chaudhary crumbles under immense pressure of expectations and ends at 7th position.
Saurabh Chaudhary fails to deliver under pressure and gets knocked out by China's Zhang Bowen. His final score reads 137.4, while Bowen was 0.3 ahead at 137.7!
Saurabh Chaudhary survives the tie-breaker against South Korea's Kim Mose and stays on in the race for podium finish.