India’s shooters won the men’s 50m pistol team gold at the ISSF World Championships in Doha on 3 November 2026, with Ravinder Singh also taking an individual silver medal.

The gold-medal team

  • Ravinder Singh — 559-11x (series: 96, 93, 95, 93, 89, 93)
  • Saurabh Chaudhary — 551-7x
  • Amanpreet Singh — 549-6x
  • Team total: 1,659-24x, ahead of China (1,648-26x, silver) and South Korea (1,643-26x, bronze)

Ravinder’s individual silver

  • Ravinder finished second in the individual men’s 50m pistol with 559-11x, just two points behind gold medallist Anton Aristarkhov of the Authorised Neutral Athletes (561-9x)
  • Romania’s Luca Joldea took bronze with 558-5x
  • Ravinder is an Indian Army shooter from the Army Marksmanship Unit

About the championships

  • The ISSF World Championship 2026 runs in Doha from 1 to 14 November
  • It is the first qualification event for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, with 36 quota places on offer across 12 individual events
  • The men’s 50m pistol is a non-Olympic event, so no quota was at stake in it

Related articles on HimachalGovt