No luck in mixed team skeet as well for India

NEW DELHI: The Indian mixed team skeet pairings also had no luck like in the individual competition, bowing out in the qualification stage of the ISSF World Cup for Shotgun in Larnaca, Cyprus on Wednesday.

The pair of Angad Vir Singh Bajwa and Areeba Khan shot a combined 131 out of 150 to finish 16th.

Germans Sven Korte and Nadine Messerschmidt won gold beating host athletes Petros Englezoudis and Anastasia Eleftheriou 6-4 in the gold medal match.

Man Singh and Raiza Dhillon, the second Indian pair in the field, shot 125 to end in 22nd position. The Cypriot pair topped the 32-team qualification stage with a score of 140. Americans Kimberly Rhode and Dustan Taylor were second with 139. The trap shooting competitions will begin on Friday.