Vivaan Kapoor secures India’s third LA28 Olympic quota after silver win in Doha men's trap final

Vivaan Kapoor clinched the mens trap silver medal at the International Shooting Sport Federation ISSF World Championship Rifle Pistol Shotgun on Thursday His podium finish secured Indias third overall quota place for the Los Angeles 2028 LA28 Olympic Games at the ongoing championshipVivaans achievement follows earlier quotawinning performances by Jaypal Malviya and Niraj Kumar in Doha Jaypal opened Indias LA28 quota account by winning silver in the mens 10m air pistol on 5 November Niraj then added the second quota place on Wednesday with a bronze medal in the mens 50m rifle 3 positionsCompeting at the Lusail Shooting Complex Vivaan finished level with Kuwaits Abdulrahman Alfaihan at the top of the leaderboard on 29 hits in the final In the suddendeath shootoff for the gold medal Alfaihan edged past the Indian marksman 32 Chinas Qi Ying claimed the bronze medal with 22 hitsEarlier two Indian shooters advanced to the eightman medal round following a sevenway tie at 120 out of 125 in qualification Vivaan qualified in sixth place after hitting six targets in the qualification shootoff having registered rounds of 25 24 24 24 and 23 Teammate Udaivir Singh Jaijee also shot 120 25 24 24 24 23 and prevailed in a suddendeath shootoff 30 to take the eighth and final qualifying spot Udaivir placed sixth in the final with 11 hits exiting behind Great Britains Nathan Hales 11 on qualification rankingIn the mens trap team event the Indian trio of Vivaan 120 Udaivir 120 and Zoravar Singh Sandhu 114 narrowly missed out on a medal to finish fourth India posted a combined total of 354 across five rounds 73 68 72 72 69 tying with silver medallists Poland and bronze medallists Czechia However India settled for fourth place on countback due to a lower finalround score Kuwait captured the team gold medal with 356 Zoravar finished 55th in the individual qualification standingsIndia also celebrated double podium success in the mens 25m center fire pistol competition Ankur Goel won the individual silver medal with a total of 58319x shooting 292 in the precision stage and 291 in the rapid stage Latvias Ernests Erbs took the gold medal with 58824x while Czechias Jindrich Dubovy secured bronze with 58226xAnkur then teamed up with Amanpreet Singh and Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu to win the mens 25m center fire pistol team bronze medal with an aggregate score of 172757x Amanpreet finished ninth in the individual standings with 57819x while Rajkanwar placed 23rd with 56619x Ukraine won the team gold medal with 173547x ahead of Republic of Korea in second on 173146xFollowing Thursdays results India sit second in the overall medal standings with 13 medals comprising two gold seven silver and four bronze China lead the table with 27 medals 13 gold six silver eight bronze while Republic of Korea occupy third spot with 10 medals two gold five silver three bronzeThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever