In the individual 10m air rifle shooting event in the Paris Olympics, Indian shooter Arjun Babuta finished fourth in the men’s event and Ramita Jindal finished seventh, in the women’s same event.
Babuta buckled under pressure and shot a total of 208.4 scores while securing fourth after coming close to winning a medal in his maiden Olympics here on Monday. He lost by a scarce difference from Croatia’s Miran Maricic’s 209.8 score.
A 9.5 in response to Maricic's 10.7 had his hopes failed as he finished on the podium.
The 25-year-old Babuta started the final with a 10.7 and followed that with a 10.2.
A third shot of 10.5 saw him take the fourth spot while a 10.4 in his fourth attempt lifted him to the third spot. He finished the first series with a solid 10.6.
He started the second series with a 10.7, followed that with a 10.5, and shot a near-perfect 10.8 in the second shot of the first elimination series.
Which propelled him into second place while reducing the deficit between him and world record-holder Chinese Sheng Lihao to 0.1 point.
However, he could not sustain the form and missed out on the medal.
Lihao claimed the top honours in this event with an Olympic record of 252.2. Sweden's Victor Lindgren took the silver medal with a score of 251.4, followed by Croatia's Miran Maricic (230) at the third spot.
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