India’s Ankur Mittal won silver medal in the men’s double trap event at the ongoing ISSF World Shotgun Championship in Moscow. Mittal was ahead of Vitaly Fokeev but in the last four shots the Russian took over and eventually won the gold for the host nation. Mittal scored 66 points while Fokeev scored 68 points.
However, Mittal finished at the top in the qualifiers with a total point of 145. Sangram Dahiya ended in 20th place with 135 while Md. Asab came in 23rd with 133 hits in the qualifying round. The trio was placed 5th in the Team Category with a total of 413 points. Italy won gold with 418 points while China finished 2 points behind at 416 to win silver.
In double trap junior category, Ahvar Rizvi won the silver. 17-year old Rizvi shot brilliantly to lead almost till the end, but lost the gold in the last two targets to James Dedman of Great Britain. Ahvar finished with 66 out of 80 targets with Dedman a point ahead on 67.

PoulomiKundu started her career in 2000 as a freelance journalist in Hindustan Times. Soon after she was selected an intern in Zee News, Kolkata.
After her post- graduation in English, Poulomi joined the leading television production house of eastern India, Rainbow Productions. She was a journalist in Khas Khobor, a Bengali news magazine programme in Doordarshan and also headed the post production department of another programme, Khas Kolkata.
In 2004, Poulomi moved to Delhi as a creative writer in an advertising agency, Brand Stewards Pvt. Ltd. In 2005, she again shifted her base for a better opportunity and that in Mumbai. There she got the job in Raa Media Pvt Ltd. as an associate director of two programmes for Doordarshan-Yuva and Paisa Vasool. In the meantime, she also wrote features in DNA as a freelancer.
Poulomi directs promotional videos, develops scripts for films for Corporate and NGOs. But an ardent sports lover, Poulomi always had an urge to contribute somewhere in the field of sports. Her love for sports started from an early age when she played gully cricket and football for local teams. Academics and professional hazards sometimes took her away from her passion, but it never died in her. She always nurtured the never-ending dream.
So she materialized her dream in the form of ‘SPORTSAVOUR’. It is an online sports portal that serves sports with the tagline ‘For the indigenous, unconventional, unknown’.