Indian shooter Vivaan Kapoor clinched the silver medal in the men's trap event at the ISSF World Championship Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun in Doha on Thursday, November 12, securing India's third quota place for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, IANS reported from Doha.

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29 hitsVivaan's score in the trap final, level with Alfaihan
3-2Shoot-off score by which Alfaihan took gold
120/125Vivaan's qualification score
13 medalsIndia's tally in Doha — 2 gold, 7 silver, 4 bronze
3rdLA28 Olympic quota won by India at this championship

Competing at the Lusail Shooting Complex, Vivaan finished level with Kuwait's Abdulrahman Alfaihan at 29 hits in the final, but Alfaihan edged the sudden-death shoot-off 3-2 to claim gold, while China's Qi Ying took bronze with 22 hits, IANS reported. The Daily Jagran reported that the 24-year-old became only the fourth Indian men's trap shooter to win a World Championship medal, and that Manavjit Singh Sandhu remains the only Indian to have won trap gold at the Worlds, in Zagreb in 2006.

Source: The Daily Jagran

Qualification battle and a team near-miss

Two Indians reached the eight-man final after a seven-way tie at 120 out of 125 in qualification: Vivaan qualified sixth, with round scores of 25, 24, 24, 24 and 23, and teammate Udaivir Singh Jaijee took the eighth and final spot with the same total, before finishing sixth in the final with 11 hits. In the team event, Vivaan (120), Udaivir (120) and Zoravar Singh Sandhu (114) combined for 354 and finished fourth — level with silver medallists Poland and bronze medallists Czechia but pushed off the podium on countback, as Kuwait took team gold with 356, IANS reported.

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India also had a double podium in the men's 25m centre fire pistol: Ankur Goel won individual silver with 583-19x (292 in precision, 291 in rapid) behind Latvia's Ernests Erbs (588-24x), and then combined with Amanpreet Singh and Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu for team bronze with 1727-57x, behind Ukraine and the Republic of Korea. Thursday's results left India second in the overall standings with 13 medals — two gold, seven silver and four bronze — behind China's 27, IANS reported.

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Vivaan's quota follows the two India had already won in Doha: Jaypal Malviya took the first with silver in the men's 10m air pistol on November 5, and Niraj Kumar added the second with bronze in the men's 50m rifle 3 positions on Wednesday, IANS reported.

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