{"id":14048,"date":"2026-05-29T09:14:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/issf-world-cup-first-timer-sakshi-padekar-misses-air-rifle-medal-more-sports-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:14:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:44:41","slug":"issf-world-cup-first-timer-sakshi-padekar-misses-air-rifle-medal-more-sports-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/issf-world-cup-first-timer-sakshi-padekar-misses-air-rifle-medal-more-sports-news\/","title":{"rendered":"ISSF World Cup: First-timer Sakshi Padekar misses air rifle medal | More sports News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131381069,imgsize-47930,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/131381069.jpg\" alt=\"ISSF World Cup: First-timer Sakshi Padekar misses air rifle medal\" title=\"Sakshi Padekar finishes seventh in her senior World Cup debut. (photo\/ANI )\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Sakshi Padekar finishes seventh in her senior World Cup debut. (photo\/ANI )\">Sakshi Padekar finishes seventh in her senior World Cup debut. (photo\/ANI )<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>PUNE: What could have been a dream start, ended into a heartbreak for Sakshi Padekar, in women\u2019s 10m air rifle event at the Munich World Cup on Thursday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/>Sakshi, participating in her first senior and second overall international event, entered the final but finished in seventh position.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Sakshi shot an impressive 635.1 in the qualification round with three series above 106. She was close to breaking the current national record of 635.9, which was created by <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/elavenil-valarivan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Elavenil Valarivan<\/a>. She was third in the qualification round but pressure got the better of her in the final.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>\u201cI shot fearlessly in the qualification round and didn\u2019t think much about the scores. However, I took pressure in the final as I started expecting a good result from myself. <!-- -->I made some mistakes and couldn\u2019t recover,\u201d Sakshi, 22, who trains at the Gun For Glory Academy in Pune, told TOI.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>Sakshi was the only Indian to qualify for the medal round as her compatriots Elavenil Valarivan was 19th after shooting 632.1, while Arya Borse was 63rd with 627.6. The gold was won by Serbian shooter Andelija Stevanovic with a score of 252.3. The silver went to Japan\u2019s Misaki Nobata with 252, while the bronze went to China\u2019s Zifei Wang, who shot 231.1.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/more-sports\/shooting\/issf-world-cup-first-timer-sakshi-padekar-misses-air-rifle-medal\/articleshow\/131381069.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sakshi Padekar finishes seventh in her senior World Cup debut. (photo\/ANI ) PUNE: What could have been a dream start, ended into a heartbreak for Sakshi Padekar, in women\u2019s 10m air rifle event at the Munich World Cup on Thursday.Sakshi, participating in her first senior and second overall international event, entered the final but finished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}