Indian shooter Anish Bhanwala won a gold medal at the ISSF Junior World Championship in the 25m Standard Pistol category, creating a junior world record.
The previous record was held by Denis Koulakov, who shot a score of 574 in a competition held in Finland in 2002.
Anish broke the record with a score of 576 in three rounds. Anish had previously won a bronze medal at the Junior Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol event at the 27th Meeting of the Shooting Hopes which concluded in May.
India finished with a highly commendable tally of 11 medals from the renowned international shooting competition in the Rifle and Pistol disciplines.
This is the fourth consecutive year for Suhl as the host of the Junior International Shooting Sport competition, having previously hosted the ISSF Junior Cup in 2014 and 2015, and the ISSF Junior World Cup in 2016.
In 2016, the city in Thuringia welcomed the ISSF World Championship Running Target competition.
The first junior competition of the year – ISSF Junior World Championship Rifle/Pistol in Germany has seen about 500 shooters participate from 65 different countries, collecting almost 1000 starts. India have sent out a 31-strong contingent for the event.
Among the big international stars is Istvan Peni of Hungary, who recently won a gold medal in the ISSF Senior World Cup in Gabala a couple of weeks back.
This Junior Championship event is set to be the talented Hungarian Rifle shooter’s last Junior event.
