Mahit Sandhu wins gold in the 50-meter rifle prone event at the World Deaf Shooting Championships

New Delhi: On the fifth day of the second World Deaf Shooting Championships in Hanover, India's Mahit Sandhu clinched the gold medal in the women's 50m rifle prone event, while Abhinav Deshwal secured silver in the men's 25m pistol event.

With these two medals, India increased its tally to 15, including four gold, seven silver and four bronze medals.

This was Sandhu's second gold medal and her third medal overall at the Deaf Shooting Worlds. Earlier, she had won gold in the mixed 10m air rifle shooting and silver in the individual 10m air rifle event along with Dhanush Srikanth.

She shot 247.4 points in the final, 2.2 more than Hungary's Mira Biatovszki. The Indian shooter qualified for the final after leading the qualification with 617.8.

The other Indian shooter in the match, Natasha Joshi, finished seventh in the final.

Deshwal lost the final series to Ukrainian Oleksandr Kolodii by only one point.

After the ninth series, both shooters were tied with 37 points. In the tenth series, Oleksandr shot a perfect five, while Deshwal only managed four points and had to settle for silver.

The other Indian shooters, Shubham Vashist and Chetan Sapkal, finished fifth and seventh respectively.

Deshwal also won silver in the 10m pistol individual, mixed and team events.