Three Indians in top-10 of world shooting rankings
The names of three Indian shooters, including Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra are included among the top-10 in latest world shooting rankings released by International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF).
The World Cup Final gold medalist Gagan Narang moved up three places to the sixth spot in the men's 10-metre air rifle event, while Bindra, who won India's first individual gold medal at Beijing in August, stayed at his second spot.
The 10th spot was retained by Ronjan Singh Sodhi in the men’s double trap event. When Sodhi won gold in Belgrade World cup in June, he was world No.1.
Narang exclaimed, “I am satisfied to move up few places in the latest world rankings and will try and do the same in the other two events (50-metre three position and prone) as well.”
He added, “I will now target to break into the top-3 bracket through the World Cups in 2009. I am going to take the 10m air rifle event a little easy now and work harder on the 50m three position and prone events for a year.”