India's Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar won gold in the men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions event at the ISSF World Cup in New Delhi on Wednesday. The 20-year-old became the youngest in history to win a shooting World Cup gold in the 3 Positions event. Hungary's Istvan Peni took home the silver while Denmark's Steffen Olsen finished third to secure the bronze medal. The two other Indian shooters in the final had a disappointing game, with Sanjeev Rajput finishing sixth and Niraj Kumar coming in at the last position.
Tomar and Olsen were neck-to-neck for most of the game, but the Dane shot a 9.5 in the 44th round to slip behind the Hungarian Peni, who was too far behind Tomar to catch up in the final round. Tomar finished with 462.5 points, while Peni finished with 461.6.
Tomar had a slender lead of 0.1 points over Olsen after the kneeling position, with 155 points. But Olsen overtook him in the prone position, taking a lead of 0.9 points as he finished with 311.4 points to Tomar's 310.5.
However, Tomar got some good scores and capitalised on a few slip-ups by the Dane to go back in the lead ahead of the eliminations.
Niraj Kumar was the first to be knocked out, as he finished with 400.3 points.
Sanjeev Rajput was in the fourth spot after the kneeling position, but slipped to fifth after the prone position and eventually finished sixth, with 413.3 points.
Olsen led over Peni until the 43rd round, and was only 0.3 points behind Tomar but his 9.5 in the 44th saw him eliminated and the Hungarian World No.1 snatch the silver medal.
This was India's 8th gold medal in the ongoing World Cup. India continue to dominate the medal tally with 15 so far. India have won three silver medals and four bronze to go with the eight gold medals.