New Delhi: India’s junior shooting squad returned with 11 medals from the recent 27th Meeting of Shooting Hopes, an international competition for future stars, held at Plzen in the Czech Republic.
India finished with three gold, four silver and four bronze medals in the four-day competition, which witnessed 459 shooters from 23 countries in action in a total of 14 rifle and pistol events.
Anmol Jain, who recently took part in his first senior International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup stage in Munich, was the most successful Indian.
He won a team gold and a team silver in the junior men’s 10m air pistol and 50m pistol events, besides bagging an individual silver in the 50m pistol event.
Arjun Babuta took silver in the junior men’s 10m air rifle with a final round score of 249.
