BAKU: Veteran rifle shooter Sanjeev Rajput shrugged off the disappointment of missing out of Rio Olympics by bagging the men’s 50m rifle 3 positions silver medal on the seventh and concluding day of competitions at the ISSF World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan.
This is the 35-year old shooter’s third World Cup medal. This was also India’s second medal of the competition after pistol ace Jitu Rai’s silver winning effort in the men’s 10m air pistol.
Rajput finished the 120 shot (40 shots each in Kneeling, Prone and Standing positions respectively) qualifying round at seventh with a combined score of 1167 to enter the eight-man final. He shot 456.9 in the finals to win the silver.—PTI
