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Vivaan Kapoor clinched silver in men’s trap at the ISSF World Championships in Doha, bagging India’s third quota place for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Vivaan Kapoor has bagged an Olympic quota for India (Picture credit: X)
ISSF World Cup Final silver medallist shooter Vivaan Kapoor on Thursday bagged silver in the men’s trap event at the ISSF World Championships in Doha, to bag India’s third quota for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
The 24-year-old from Jaipur was in sublime form and appeared poised to become just the second Indian to claim the men’s trap world title after Manavjit Singh Sandhu, who won at the 2006 World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia.
But Vivaan missed a clay target in the shoot-off against Kuwait’s Abdulrahman Alfaihan, who clinched gold after the two shooters were tied at 29 hits apiece in regulation.
Vivaan thus became just the fourth Indian men’s trap shooter, after the legendary Karni Singh (silver), Manavjit Singh and Zorawar Singh Sandhu, to win a World Championships medal in the fiercely competitive discipline.
He also became the third Indian shooter to bag an LA 2028 Olympic quota, joining men’s 10m air pistol shooter Jaypal Malviya and men’s 50m rifle 3-positions bronze medallist Niraj Kumar.
Vivaan was brilliantly consistent in the final, with his only miss coming on the 28th shot. Alfaihan, a 2006 junior world champion and three-time Asian champion, had been trailing by a point before capitalising on Vivaan’s error to draw level at 27-27.
Both shooters eventually finished with 29 hits each, falling just short of a perfect 30 that would have set a new world record.
The shoot-off proved to be a tense affair, with both shooters hitting their first two targets. But Vivaan faltered on the third, while the experienced Alfaihan held his nerve to seal gold before celebrating with his coach.
China’s Qi Ying, the silver medallist at the 2024 Paris Olympics, settled for bronze, while reigning Olympic champion Nathan Hales of Great Britain finished fifth.
India’s other finalist, Udaivir Singh Jaiji, finished sixth after being eliminated after the first 15 shots, managing 11 hits.
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