Doha, November 8: Niveditha Veloor Nair clinched the individual bronze medal in the women's 25m standard pistol event at the ISSF World Championship 2026 in Doha, Qatar, on Sunday, ANI reported, citing Olympics.com. The Tamil Nadu shooter finished third with a score of 567-13x, just two points behind China's Xiao Jiaruixuan, who claimed gold with 569-10x, while Hungary's Veronika Major secured silver with 568-13x. Both Xiao and Major are individual Olympic medallists in the women's 25m pistol discipline, ANI said.

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567-13xNiveditha Veloor Nair's bronze-medal score in the women's 25m standard pistol
569-10x / 568-13xgold for China's Xiao Jiaruixuan / silver for Hungary's Veronika Major
1,682-33xIndia's team silver total (Nair, Manvi Jain, Simranpreet Kaur Brar)
7India's medal tally at Doha so far: one gold, five silver, one bronze

India also secured silver in the women's 25m standard pistol team event. The trio of Niveditha Nair, Manvi Jain and Simranpreet Kaur Brar combined for 1,682-33x to finish second, behind China, who won gold with a world-record score of 1,698-43x, while Hungary took bronze with 1,676-30x, ANI reported. In the individual standings, Jain finished eighth with 560-10x and Brar 10th with 555-10x. Dainik Jagran English also reported the individual bronze and the team silver on Monday, with the same scores.

Source: Dainik Jagran English

India's campaign in the men's 25m standard pistol event ended without a medal. Harsh Gupta finished fifth with 573-13x, followed by Udit Joshi in 18th place with 562-13x and Jatin in 28th with 559-5x, and India finished fourth in the team standings, behind Latvia, the Republic of Korea and Ukraine, according to ANI.

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India's tally at Doha rises to seven

The two medals won on Sunday took India's overall tally at the Doha championships to seven, comprising one gold, five silver and one bronze. India's only gold so far came in the men's 50m pistol team event, while Ravinder Singh secured an individual silver in the same discipline. Elavenil Valarivan, Sonam Maskar and Shambhavi Kshirsagar won silver in the women's 10m air rifle team event, and two-time Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker, alongside Suruchi Singh and Sainyam, secured silver in the women's 10m air pistol team event. Earlier, Jaypal Malviya won individual silver in the men's 10m air pistol event, earning India its first shooting quota place for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics. The championship, featuring rifle, pistol and shotgun events, runs from November 1 to 14 in Doha, and India's shooters will look to add further medals as it progresses.

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