Raiza Dhillon finishes 5th in women’s skeet

Paris Olympian Raiza Dhillon finished a creditable fifth after entering her first ISSF World Cup final in the women’s skeet event on a day when India maintained their impressive run in the tournament here.

At the end of second competition day, India were second in the medals tally with two gold, one silver and a bronze. China lead the standings. Raiza, a former junior world championship silver medallist and a bronze winner at the Asian Championships last year, enjoyed a solid final in a strong field before bowing out at the halfway stage of the 60-shot decider with 26 hits to her name.

She could not get the better of the fourth-placed Jiang Yiting of China, a Paris Olympics mixed team bronze medallist, whom she had to beat given the disadvantage of having the highest bib number. She had shot 19 out of the first 20 to fend off the second Chinese finalist Che Yufei.

Teammate Ganemat Sekhon went the other way, starting at sixth overall and ending at ninth with 116. Darshna Rathore was further down in 15th with 110.

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