Ankur Mittal News
Mittal had won a gold medal in Double Trap event at 2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships at Changwon, South Korea.
Sidhu also won a gold medal in the 10m air pistol mixed team event of the 2017 World Cup in New Delhi and silver in the 2009 and 2014 editions of the marquee event.
India`s top-ranked double trap shooter Ankur Mittal said he will take training in Italy for ten days before Asian Games commences.
India won one gold and two bronze on the seventh day of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast on Wednesday. All three medals came in shooting though Shreyasi Singh, Ankur Mittal and Om Prakash Mitherval, taking India's medals tally to 12 gold, four silver and eight bronze.
Ankur Mittal scored 53 points to finish 10 points ahead of compatriot Ashab Mohammed.
The in-form double trap exponent Ankur Mittal and pistol ace Jitu Rai will spearhead India's challenge in the prestigious ISSF World Cup Finals, which the country is hosting for the first time, from Tuesday onwards.
Meanwhile, in the junior category of the double-trap event, debutant Ahvar Rizvi won the silver medal scoring 66 points, just one behind Great Britain's James Dedman.
Ankur Mittal ended with 75 points out of possible 80 in the six-man final to win India's first medal in the competition while his Australian rival James Willet managed 73.
The Indian duo Heena-Jitu won the first-ever medal in the discipline by beating Japan in the finals at the Karni Singh Shooting Range.
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