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Neeru and Vivaan win trap mixed team bronze

New Delhi, May 10 (UNI) The pair of Neeru Dhanda and Vivaan Kapoor, won bronze in the trap mixed team event on Sunday, helping India conclude the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on a high.
Neeru and Vivaan shot 24 out of the first 30 targets in the final and despite matching the top Italian pair of Silvana Stanco and Mauro De Filippis, had to miss out on a better medal having finished second to the silver winning Italians in qualification. Chinese Taipei’s Kun-Pi Yang and Wan-Yu Liu won a second world cup gold with a world record score of 36 in the final.
Vivaan and Neeru had shot 143 in qualification, finishing just two behind Silvana, a Paris Olympic silver medalist, and Mauro, a former world champion in the event. Both shot perfect third rounds of 25 each to confirm their final spots with Vivaan missing two out of his 75 targets.
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