By Admin 
Olympian Gurpreet Singh had to settle for silver in the 25m Centre Fire Pistol, losing out on gold on fewer inner 10s to Ukraine’s Pavlo Korostylov on the final day of competition at the ISSF World Championships in Cairo. Yann Pierre Louis Fridrici of France won bronze.
Gurpreet shot a total of 584-18x in the precision and rapid stages but Korostylov’s 29 inner 10’s and a perfect score of 100 in the final rapid round helped him edge ahead. After the precision stage, Gurpreet, who was ninth, fought back on Monday with a score of 296 in rapid. In contrast Harpreet Singh, second at the end of Day One, could only manage 286-6x in rapid to finish ninth. Sahil Choudhary finished 28th with the trio together placing fifth as a team.
India finished third in the competition with a total of 13 medals including three gold, six silver and four bronze. China finished on top with 21 medals including 12 gold and South Korea is placed second with 14 medals.