Paris Olympics 2024 Shooting: Vijayveer Sidhu and Anish Bhanwala fail to qualify for 25m rapid fire pistol final

Indian shooters Vijayveer Sidhu and Anish Bhanwala failed to qualify for the final of the men’s 25m rapid-fire pistol event in the Paris Olympics 2024 after finishing in the ninth and 13th positions, respectively, in the qualification round.

22-year-old Vijayveer Sidhu, who won a bronze medal at the 2022 Asian Games in the same event, finished in the ninth spot after scoring 583 points. Meanwhile, Commonwealth Games gold medalist Anish Bhanwala totaled 582 points to finish in 13th place. Both of the rifle shooters will not progress through to the final stage of the 25m rapid-fire pistol event as only the top six qualifiers make the last round.

The final result of the qualifier would be a disappointment for Vijayveer and Anish, as the duo were in the fifth and seventh positions, respectively, at the end of Stage 1. However, several shooters, such as Ukraine’s Maksym Horodynets, Estonia’s Peeter Olesk, and Italy’s Riccardo Mazzetti, vastly improved upon their initial scores in Stage 2, pushing the Indian duo down in the rankings.

At the end of the qualification round on Sunday, the Chinese pair of Li Yuehong and Wang Xinjie, Ukraine’s Pavlo Korostylov, South Korea’s Cho Yeongjae, Italy’s Massimo Spinella, and Germany’s Florian Peter made the men's 25m rapid fire pistol final.

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Paris Olympics 2024 Shooting: Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Qualification Results

1. Li Yuehong (People's Republic of China) - 588-30x (Qualified)
2. Wang Xinjie (People's Republic of China) - 587-24x (Qualified)
3. Pavlo Korostylov (Ukraine) - 587-17x (Qualified)
4. Cho Yeongjae (Republic of Korea) - 586-22x (Qualified)
5. Massimo Spinella (Italy) - 586-19x (Qualified)
6. Florian Peter (Germany) - 585-27x (Qualified)
7. Clement Bessaguet (France) - 585-17x
8. Maksym Horodynets (Ukraine) - 584-14x
9. Vijayveer Sidhu (India) - 583-26x
10. Nikita Chiryukin (Kazakhstan) - 583-20x
11. Peeter Olesk (Estonia) - 583-17x
12. Riccardo Mazzetti (Italy) - 583-14x
13. Anish Anish (India) - 582-22x
14. Matej Rampula (Czechia) - 581-22x
15. Ghulam Mustafa Bashir (Pakistan) - 581-19x
16. Leuris Pupo (Cuba) - 581-13x
17. Song Jong-Ho (Republic of Korea) - 580-26x
18. Ruslan Lunev (Azerbaijan) - 580-22x
19. Keith Sanderson (United States of America) - 579-16x
20. Enkhtaivan Davaakhuu (Mongolia) - 578-20x
21. Jorge Alvarez (Cuba) - 578-18x
22. Jean Quiquampoix (France) - 578-16x
23. Christian Reitz (Germany) - 577-15x
24. Omar Khaled Abdelhady Mohamed (Egypt) - 576-18x
25. Henry Turner Leverett (United States of America) - 573-16x
26. Sergei Evglevski (Australia) - 573-14x
27. Martin Podhrasky (Czechia) - 573-11x
28. Dai Yoshioka (Japan) - 572-12x
29. Douglas Gomez (Venezuela) - 569-12x

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