Xtra Time Web Desk:Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary won their sixth 10M Air Pistol Mixed Team International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup medal on the trot, only this time their first silver after a run of five gold medals, going down to the Russian pair of Vitalina Batsarashkina and Artem Chernousov 12-16 in the gold medal match on Saturday in Osijek, Croatia.
The Indian duo fought hard, levelling at 6-6 and then fighting back from 6-12 to level it back at 12-12, but that was not enough on the day to ward off the world class Russian pair in the Olympic event.
India now has one silver and two bronze medals at the ongoing Osijek shooting world cup to lie ninth in the medals tally. Russia tops the table currently with three gold medals for a total of seven medals.
A total of 17 nations have medals at the Osijek ISSF Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun World Cup stage, in what is the final world level competition before the Tokyo 2020 summer Olympics next month.