The 36-member Indian shooting contingent will return from the 2025 ISSF World Cup in Munich with a total of four medals – two gold and two bronze – which saw them end in third spot at the overall standings behind People’s Republic of China and Norway.
For India, bring home the medals are two-time Olympian Elavenil Valarivan (who won a bronze in the women’s 10m air rifle category, after scoring 231.2 and set a new national record during the qualification round of the same event, recording an exceptional score of 635.9), rifle shooter Sift Kaur Samra (who secured third place on the podium in the 50m rifle 3 positions event), nineteen-year-old Suruchi Singh (who previously won gold in both the Buenos Aires and Lima legs of the 2025 ISSF World Cup and added one more gold in Munich in the women’s 10m air pistol event), and the duo of Arjun Babuta and Arya Borse (by registering a dominant 17-7 victory over the Chinese team to finish atop the podium in the 10m air rifle mixed team event).
Manu Bhaker, who had won two medals at Paris Olympics, failed to win a medal at the Munich World Cup. She was competing in the 10m air pistol, 25m individual shooting events besides pairing up with Aditya Malra in the mixed team event.
Like Suruchi, Arya has been making waves on the shooting circuit after Paris Olympics cycle ended. Arya had joined hands with Rudrankksh Patil to win the 10m air rifle mixed team silver medals at the ISSF World Cups in Buenos Aires and Lima.
Arya and Arjun had claimed the gold medal by defeated China’s Wang Zifei and Sheng Lihao in the 10m air rifle mixed team final which was remarkable as Sheng is the reigning men’s 10m air rifle individual champion and had combined with Huang Yuting to claim gold in the mixed team event at Paris 2024 last year.
The next event of the ISSF World Cup 2025 for rifle and pistol shooters is scheduled to take place in Ningbo, China, in September.