Ganemat Sekhon has become the first Indian woman skeet shooter to win a medal in the junior world championships and the first to win a World Cup medal (bronze). In the shotgun World Cup in Almaty, Kazakhstan on May 23, the 22-year-old sports star won silver. India’s Darshna Rathore also won a bronze in the event.
A special day for Indian shooting, the world championship witnessed the country picking two senior individual medals in women’s skeet.
Kazakhstan’s Assem Orynbay won the gold. Orynbay and Ganemat ended the 60-shot final with 50 hits each. Ganemat missed one of the first two shoot-off targets, while Orynbay hit both. It was Ganemat’s second individual World Cup medal, after her victory at the 2021 ISSF World Cup in New Delhi.
It was Darshna Rathore’s first medal in a senior final. She qualified for the six-woman final in second spot after equalling the national record score of 120, while Ganemat made the cut at fourth place after shooting 117. Orynbay topped the qualification (121) in a quality field that included world No. 10 Konstantina Nikolaou of Cyprus.
Ganemat Sekhon and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa won gold medal for India in the mixed skeet at the ISSF World Cup in New Delhi in March 2021.
