Olympian Gurpreet Singh came agonisingly close to becoming the world champion in the 25m Centre Fire Pistol event, losing out the gold medal on inner 10’s to Ukraine’s Pavlo Korostylov at the Olympic Shooting Range in Cairo.

This is Gurpreet’s second individual medal in World Championships, the first one also a silver won back in 2018 at Changwon in the 25m Standard Pistol event. Yann Pierre Louis Fridrici of France won the bronze.

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Gurpreet shot a total of 584-18x over two days of competition in the precision and rapid stages while Korostylov shot 29 inner 10’s and a perfect score of 100 in the final rapid round to edge away with the gold medal.

The Indian, placed ninth after the precision stage with a score of 288-8x (95,97,96) came back on the second day to shoot a bril

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