{"id":173369,"date":"2021-10-05T00:09:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T18:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=173369"},"modified":"2021-10-05T00:09:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T18:39:19","slug":"indias-14-year-old-shooter-naamya-kapoor-wins-gold-in-junior-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/indias-14-year-old-shooter-naamya-kapoor-wins-gold-in-junior-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s 14-year-old shooter Naamya Kapoor wins gold in junior world championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lima, Oct 4 (PTI) India&#8217;s 14-year-old shooter Naamya Kapoor fired her way to the gold medal ahead of her celebrated compatriot Manu Bhaker in the women&#8217;s 25m pistol event of the ISSF Junior world Championship here on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kapoor shot 36 in the finals to claim the top prize ahead of France&#8217;s Camille Jedrzejewski (33) and 19-year-old Olympian Bhakar (31), who has already won three gold so far in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bhaker settled for bronze after the French markswoman prevailed in a shoot-off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another Indian shooter, Rhythm Sangwan, finished fourth as the country dominated the finals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kapoor was sixth in the qualification with a total of 580 as Bhaker (587) and Sangwan (586) grabbed the top two spots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delhi&#8217;s Kapoor had shot the second best score of 583 in qualification to finish fifth in the national shooting selection trials at the Dr Karni Singh Range in August.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India lead standings with seven gold, six silver and three bronze for a total of 16 medals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the first multi-discipline shooting event since the Tokyo Olympics, with as many as 32 nations and nearly 370 athletes participating in the championship. PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lima, Oct 4 (PTI) India&#8217;s 14-year-old shooter Naamya Kapoor fired her way to the gold medal ahead of her celebrated compatriot Manu Bhaker in the women&#8217;s 25m pistol event of the ISSF Junior world Championship here on Monday. Kapoor shot 36 in the finals to claim the top prize ahead of France&#8217;s Camille Jedrzejewski (33) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-173369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}