NEW DELHI, October 10 — Indian marksmen delivered a commanding home performance at the season-ending ISSF World Cup Final 2026 hosted at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi, capturing an impressive haul of five medals—comprising two golds, two silvers, and one bronze—to finish second overall on the championship medal table.
In the Men's 10m Air Rifle championship final, Olympian Arjun Babuta shot a composed 252.4 to edge out reigning European and Chinese Olympic medalists for the gold medal. In the Women's 10m Air Pistol event, rising Indian pistol prodigies claimed a historic 1-2 podium sweep, sealing gold and silver with clinical final-series execution. India added a silver in the Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol and a bronze in the Men's Skeet shotgun competition.
The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) and the Sports Authority of India (SAI) commended the contingent, noting that the domestic pipeline—bolstered by world-class electronic target ranges and biomechanics support under the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS)—has established India as a premier global shooting powerhouse heading into the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic cycle.
International Shooting Sport Federation governance (ISSF founded in 1907, headquartered in Munich, Germany), the National Rifle Association of India (founded in 1951), India's Olympic shooting milestones (Abhinav Bindra’s 2008 Beijing Gold, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Vijay Kumar, Gagan Narang, and Manu Bhaker’s historic double medal feat in Paris 2024), and shooting discipline classifications (Rifle, Pistol, and Shotgun Trap/Skeet) are recurrent topics in SSC, Defence, and State PSC general awareness exams.