Zoravar finishes seventh as India concludes best-ever campaign

Zorawar Singh Sandhu completed seventh within the males’s lure ultimate with seven hits within the first 10 targets, as India concluded their best-ever marketing campaign at ISSF World Cup Ultimate with six medals, together with two gold, on Monday (December 8, 2025).

World Championship bronze medallist Zorawar was the one Indian consultant on the concluding shotgun day on the Lusail Capturing complicated.

Zorawar entered the ultimate, which now contains eight shooters as a substitute of the sooner six as per new ISSF guidelines, with a rating of 119 in qualifying, which gave him the sixth place over 125 targets.

Within the 30-shot ultimate, he couldn’t get his act collectively and was among the many first two, alongside Italian Giovanni Pellielo, to bow out.

China topped the standings forward of India, with 4 gold and 9 medals. USA with their double gold in males’s lure and skeet on the day, got here third.

Amongst India’s excessive factors of the marketing campaign was a shocking gold by Simranpreet Kaur Brar within the girls’s 25m pistol and a return to the highest of the rostrum of Suruchi Phogat, who received the ladies’s 10m air pistol gold.

India additionally registered a primary ever double podium end in an ISSF World Cup Ultimate, when Sainyam took the primary of three silver from the marketing campaign for India.

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar within the males’s 50m rifle 3 positions and Anish Bhanwala within the males’s 25m rapid-fire pistol had been the opposite silver winners.

India’s lone bronze was received by reigning world champion within the males’s 10m air pistol, Samrat Rana.