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Farthate wins gold at World Shooting

Source: PTI
July 25, 2006 19:54 IST
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India's Navnath Farthate won the gold medal in junior men's air rifle event at the World Shooting Championships in Zagreb, Croatia, on Tuesday.

He shot 596 out of 600 to become the second Indian junior ever to win a gold medal at the quadrennial event.

Jaspal Rana had won the gold as a junior in standard pistol in 1994.

This is India's second gold in the championship after Abhinav Bindra won the 10m air rifle event on Monday.

India also won two bronze medals and two Olympic quota places so far from the ongoing championship.

India had won its first ever team medal in a junior competition on the opening day of the championships when they claimed bronze in the air pistol event.

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