India win women's 25m pistol team gold at ISSF World Championship 2026 in Doha but miss Olympic quota

Esha Singh, Manu Bhaker and Divya Thadigol Subbaraju captured the women's 25m pistol team gold for India at the ISSF World Championship 2026 in Doha on November 10, 2026, but India failed to secure an Olympic quota from the individual event.

The Indian trio finished with a combined score of 1761-68x to take gold, ahead of the Republic of Korea on 1748-66x and Vietnam on 1745-54x. Individually, Esha top-scored for India with 590-25x, Manu recorded 587-24x and Divya posted 584-19x. 𝑩𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒔𝒆𝒚𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑩𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒕! 🎯 Proud of our champions Manu, Esha, and Divya for bringing home the Gold! 🏅🥇#NRAI | #INDIANSHOOTINGTEAM | #ISSF[NRAI, IndianShooting, Rifle/Pistol, Shotgun, WorldChampionships, Doha, Qatar] pic.twitter.com/xIiFMl3TyL

Manu Bhaker and Esha Singh advanced to the individual final, where Bhaker finished fourth with 27 hits and Esha placed eighth with 11 hits. Double Olympic medallist Bhaker finished fourth, coming agonisingly close to securing a quota, after winning three consecutive shoot-offs in the final.

The three Olympic quotas available from the women's 25m pistol event went to Thu Vinh Trinh of Vietnam, Jiin Yang of South Korea and Yueyue Zhang of China, who finished first, second and third respectively in the individual competition.

In other action, the Indian men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions team of Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Akhil Sheoran and Niraj Kumar won bronze with a combined score of 1751-91x. Czechia took gold with 1754-92x and Norway claimed silver with 1752-81x.

Aishwary led the Indian trio in the men's team event with 587-33x, while Niraj scored 582-31x and Akhil 582-27x.

India will be in action again on November 11, with the final of the men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions event.