Om Prakash Mitharwal wins Gold in 50m Pistol Event at Changwon

25m Standard Pistol Men

Pavlo Korostylov of Ukraine won Gold in 25m Standard Pistol Men (Image Courtesy: ELEY)

Korostylov won Gold in the 25m Standard Pistol event as Gurpreet of India settled for Silver after a shoot-off with Kim of Korea.

Gold - Pavlo Korostylov (UKR) 581, Silver - Gurpreet Singh (IND) 579 (22x), Bronze - Junhong Kim (KOR) 579 (19x). 25th Place - Amanpreet Singh (IND) 560, 26th Place - Vijay Kumar (IND) 560.

25m Standard Pistol Men Team

France claimed the Team Gold ahead of Korea and Ukraine with India finishing in 4th spot

Gold - France 1716 (Clement Bessaguet 576, Boris Artaud 575, Alban Lucien Pierson 565)

Silver - South Korea 1709 (Junhong Kim 579, Young Min Kim 568, Dae Kyu Jang 562)

Bronze - Ukraine 1704 (Pavlo Korostylov 581, Volodymyr Pasternak 564, Oleksandr Petriv 559)

4th Place - India 1699 (Gurpreet Singh 579, Amanpreet Singh 560, Vijay Kumar 560, )

25m Center Fire Pistol Men

The 49-year-old veteran from Brazil, Julio Almeida pocketed his first Gold medal in the World Championship in the 25m Center Fire Pistol for Men. Christian Reitz who is the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Olympic Champion claimed the Silver while Korostylov of Ukraine took the Bronze.

Julio Almeida of Brazil took the Gold in 25m Center Fire Pistol Men (Image Courtesy: Otempo)

Gold - Julio Almeida (BRA) 591, Silver - Christian Reitz (GER) 588, Bronze - Pavlo Korostylov (UKR) 586. 10th Place - Gurpreet Singh (IND) 581, 24th Place - Vijay Kumar (IND) 576, 25th Place - Anish (IND) 576.

25m Center Fire Pistol Men Team

None of the individual medalists were able to help their team to the podium as South Korea clinch the Gold in Team event. India finished in 4th place.

Gold - South Korea 1743 (Young Min Kim 586, Jinil Kim 581, Dae Kyu Jang 576)

Silver - France 1737 (Clement Bessaguet 584, Alban Lucien Pierson 577, Boris Artaud 576)

Bronze - China 1735 (Zhaonan Yao 583, Yongde Jin 582, Xiankun Zhao 570)

4th Place - India 1733. (Gurpreet Singh 581, Vijay Kumar 576, Anish 576)

» 50m Pistol Men

Om Prakash Mitharval of India won Gold in 50m Pistol Men (Image Courtesy: The Week)

Om Prakash of India secured the Gold with an impressive shooting display in the final series to dislodge Damir Mikec of Serbia and Lee of Korea. India's Golden boy Jitu Rai was unable to find his form and finished in 17th place.

Gold - Om Prakash Mitharval (IND) 564, Silver - Damir Mikec (SRB) 562, Bronze - Daemyung Lee (KOR) 560. 17th Place - Jitu Rai (IND) 552, 56th Place - Manjit (IND) 532.

50m Pistol Men Team

India missed the podium in the Team events finishing in 5th place. Korea took the Gold and Serbia settled for another Silver.

Gold - South Korea 1670 (Daemyung Lee 560, Daehun Park 556, Seungwoo Han 554 )

Silver - Serbia 1667 (Damir Mikec 562, Dusko Petrov 554, Dimitrije Grgic 551)

Bronze - China 1661 (WU Jiayu Wu 560, Bingchen Zhang 550, Qifeng Pu 551)

5th Place - India 1648 (Om Prakash Mitharval 564, Jitu Rai 552, Manjit 532)