Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil won a gold medal at the Shooting World Championships in Egypt. : On 14 October, Indian shooter Patil won a gold medal in the 10m Air Rifle event at the ISSF World Championship in Cairo, Egypt.
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Along with this, he has also secured a place in the 2024 Paris Olympics. He defeated Italy’s Danilo Dennis Sollazzo 17-15 in the gold medal match. He is the second Indian after Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra to achieve this feat.
Bindra won a gold medal in this event in 2006 in Zagreb, Croatia. Rudrankksh entered the competition for the first time in the World Championship. Earlier, India won a bronze medal in the women’s 25m pistol team junior event. In the bronze medal match, the trio of Esha Singh, Namya Kapoor, and Vibhuti Bhatia beat Germany 17-1.
