Vanshika and Chirag shoot down 10m air pistol mixed team gold at ISSF Jr World Cup in Cairo

Vanshika Chaudhary and Chirag Sharma combined well to win the gold medal for India in the 10m air pistol mixed team event at the ISSF Junior World Cup 2026 in Cairo, Egypt, on Saturday.

Vanshika, who won the individual crown in the women’s 10m air pistol event earlier, and Chirag Sharma, the bronze winner in the men’s variant, shot a combined score of 484.3 to beat Aliaksandra Piatrova and Mikita Daubash to the top podium.

Piatrova and Daubash, both individual neutral athletes, scored 467.6 to secure the silver ahead of another Indian team, Mohini Singh and Himanshu Rana, who took the bronze with a score of 407.4.

Earlier in the qualification round, Vanshika and Chirag were the runaway toppers with a score of 582-21x. Mohini Singh and Himanshu Rana were third with 568-15x.

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The top four teams from the qualifiers made the final. Alina Nestsiarovich and Yury Krautsou, another neutral shooting team, were the fourth team in the medal round.

Meanwhile, India struck out in both the men’s and women’s individual trap events despite having three finalists across the two events. In the men’s event, Zuhair Khan and Yugan Sakthivel Muthukumaar finished seventh and eighth, respectively, in the medal round.

Zuhair had earlier finished sixth in the qualifiers with a score of 115 while Muthukumaar was the final shooter to make the cut for the final, placing eighth with 112.

In women’s trap, Bhavya Tripathi qualified for the medal round as the sixth-best shooter but finished bottom in the eight-shooter final.

Senior ISSF World Cup medallist Sabeera Haris missed out on a final berth despite scoring the same number of points as the eighth-place shooter. She lost her place on reverse countback.

The two podium finishes on Saturday took India’s medals tally at the Cairo shooting meet up to 14, five gold, five silver and four bronze, and consolidated their position at the top of the table.