Meghana Sajjanar clinched the bronze in the women’s 10m air rifle event at the ISSF World Cup 2025 in Ningbo, the People’s Republic of China, on Sunday as Indian shooters finished the meet with two medals.
Esha Singh had won the other medal – a gold – in the women’s 10m air pistol event on Saturday. The Ningbo meet was the fourth and final ISSF World Cup of the year for rifle and pistol shooters.
This was the 31-year-old Meghana Sajjanar’s first-ever individual medal on the international stage.
The Indian shooter had placed seventh in the qualifiers with a score of 632.6 to make the cut for the medal round.
Despite a slow start, Meghana recovered well to steadily climb the leaderboard and held out for a bronze after shooting 230.0.
Teenaged Chinese shooter Peng Xinlu set a new world record (255.3) to take the gold medal while the silver went to Olympian Jeanette Hegg Duestad of Norway, who shot 252.6.
However, for India’s Paris 2024 bronze medallist Swapnil Kusale, it was a disappointing day at the office as he failed to qualify for the final of the men’s 50m rifle 3 positions event after finishing 21st with 587-30x.
Kiran Ankush Jadhav made the cut after placing fourth in the qualifiers with 590-31x but was the first to be eliminated in the final round.
Barring Esha, Meghana and Kiran, none of the other Indian shooters who competed in Ningbo managed to qualify for the finals.
Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker did not compete at the Ningbo meet.