The team of Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu displayed great resilience to give India their first gold medal of the ISSF World Cup. The duo clinched the top honours in the 10m air pistol mixed team event on the opening day of the competitions.
Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu have combined before as well as this is their third gold together in the mixed team event. The mixed team competitions were organised as test events in the World Cups held earlier this year and will be making their Olympic debut in the Tokyo 2020 Games.
Rai and Sidhu qualified for the finals as the top of the table today and comfortably claimed the gold by pipping France, who secured the silver medal.