At the ISSF Junior World Cup 2025, Indian shooter Adriyan Karmakar maintained his outstanding form by winning a bronze medal in the men's 50-meter rifle three-positions competition on Friday.
May 23, Suhl, Germany: At the ISSF Junior World Cup 2025, Indian shooter Adriyan Karmakar maintained his outstanding form by winning a bronze medal in the men's 50-meter rifle three-positions competition on Friday in Suhl, Germany.
At the Suhl event, the 20-year-old Indian shooter won his second medal. He had previously set a junior national record and won silver in the 50-meter rifle prone event. Adriyan Karmakar finished the gold round with 446.6 points, trailing only Jens Oestli of Norway (459.1) and French Olympian Romain Aufrere (459.7).
Adriyan is the son of Arjuna-winning Olympian Joydeep Karmakar, who narrowly missed the medal in the men's 50-meter rifle prone event at the London 2012 Olympics after placing fourth.
In addition to his recent exploits, Adriyan is the junior national champion in the 50m rifle 3P and the prone event champion at the Khelo India Youth Games.
Aufrere Romain won the qualifying round with an incredible score of 590 points, while Adriyan finished fourth with 588 points. In the meantime, Manvendra Singh Shekhawat (570), Harshvardhan Singh (569), and Nitin Waghmare (579 points) of India did not place in the top eight.
Raiza Dhillon, an Indian skeet shooter, won a silver medal at the ISSF Junior World Cup 2025 earlier in the competition. The 21-year-old Indian shooter, who took home a silver medal at the Asian Championships the previous year, finished behind Phoebe Bodley-Scott of Great Britain, who fired 53 on Thursday, after making 51 of her 60 rounds in the final.
Bodley-Scott won the same event at the same location three years prior, and this was his second junior ISSF World Cup gold medal. With 38, Annabella Hettmer of Germany won bronze. After placing second in the qualifying round with a score of 116, Dhillon qualified for the six-woman medal round.