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Paris Olympics 2024: Indian shooter Sarabjot Singh (X)
India’s Sarabjot Singh and Arjun Singh Cheema did not qualify for the 10m Air Pistol men’s medal event.
India’s Sarabjot Singh and Arjun Singh Cheema failed to get qualification to the medal round of the men’s 10m Air Pistol event in Chateauroux at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.
Sarabjot narrowly missed out on qualification, as the top-eight only qualify. He finished 9th with an overall score 577-16x right behind Germany’s Robin Walter (577-17X).
Arjun Singh Cheema finished 18th with an overall score of 574-17x.
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“I thought I did well from my end, but it was a bad day. I can’t understand how all of this happened. I gave it my best. But it’s fine, it’s my first Olympics, it was a good experience and I’ve learnt a few lessons. I need to better my technique. I’ll work on it when I go back to India,” Sarabjot told Sports18.
Germany’s Robin Walter, who also shot 577, grabbed the last (eighth) qualifying spot after managing to shoot one inner 10 (X) more than Sarabjot’s 16.
A perfect 100 in the fourth series propelled the 22-year-old Sarabjot into the top-three after a poor start but he failed to sustain the momentum and fizzled out.
Cheema shot 10 perfect 10s off his last 10 shots, which lifted him to the fourth position but he too lost the plot after promising much.
The 23-year-old Cheema collected 97 points from Series 2 (8, 10, 10, 10, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10) and was placed 10th in the list. He collected 96 points from Series 1. However, a poor 7 followed by a 9 from Cheema saw him slip outside the top eight.
Both Cheema and Sarabjot were part of the Indian side that won the 10m air pistol team gold at the Asian Games in Hangzhou last year.
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Earlier, it was not a good start to the day for Indian shooting fans as the two pairs of Ramita Jindal-Arjun Babuta and Elavenil Valarivan-Sandeep Singh failed to qualify for the final of the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team qualification round. Ramita and Arjun shot a total of 628.7 in a series of 30 shots for each. Elavenil Valarivan and Sandeep Singh, the second Indian team, finished 12th with 626.3 points.
India’s sole rower Balraj Panwar advanced to the repechages after finishing fourth in heat 1 of the men’s singles scull competition. The 25-year-old missed out on the direct qualification for the quarterfinals after coming behind New Zealand’s Thomas Mackintosh (6:55.92), Stefanos Ntouskos (7:01.79) and Abdelkhalek Elbanna (7:05.06), respectively. Panwar finished fourth with the timing of 7:07.11. The top three in each heat get direct qualification for the quarters. However, the Indian rower will have another chance in the repechages.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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