India win women's 25m pistol team gold in Doha but Manu Bhaker and Esha Singh miss Olympic quotas
India secured the women's 25m pistol team gold at the ISSF World Championships in Doha on November 10, 2026, while Manu Bhaker and Esha Singh failed to convert their individual final berths into medals or Olympic quota places.
Both Bhaker and Singh had advanced to the eight-shooter individual final after strong qualification rounds, but neither could sustain that form; India’s team triumph came from the combined qualification scores of Singh, Bhaker and Divya Subbaraju. The tournament in Doha is offering 36 quota places for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
South Korea’s Yang Jiin won the individual title with a world-record 44 in the final, Vietnam’s Trinh Thu Vinh took silver with 43 and China’s Zhang Yueyue claimed bronze with 34; all three also earned Olympic quota places for their countries. Esha Singh finished eighth in the final with 11 hits from a possible 20 across four series of 1, 5, 3 and 2, while Manu Bhaker placed fourth with 27 hits after surviving multiple shoot-offs.
Singh led the Indian challenge across two days of qualification with a total of 590, composed of 292 in Monday’s Precision round and a Rapid-round 298 made up of series of 100, 98 and 100. Bhaker recovered from a 289 Precision round by shooting 99, 99 and 100 in Rapid to finish qualification on 587; Divya Subbaraju posted 584, giving India an aggregate team score of 1761 to win gold.
In the team standings, South Korea finished second on 1748 and Vietnam third on 1745. Individually in qualification, Singh was third, Bhaker sixth and Divya tenth, which secured the trio’s places in the team competition and the leading positions going into the final.
India’s broader World Championships campaign has yielded just one Olympic quota so far — through men’s 10m air pistol shooter Jaypal Malviya — and has been affected by underwhelming rifle results and the disqualification of rifle shooter Sambhavi Kshirsagar over an equipment-related failure. The country’s high-performance programme led by director Pierre Beauchamp and his team remains in place amid those outcomes.
India’s remaining medal and quota hopes at the championships now hinge on trap events. The women’s trap team had a difficult opening day: Neeru Dhanda scored 20 and 19 for a two-round total of 39 and sat 69th among 77 shooters, Pragati Dubey was 18th with 46 (24, 22) and Manisha Keer 41st with 43 (23, 20), leaving all three with work to do to reach the top eight.
The women’s trap competitors will shoot two more rounds of 25 shots each on Wednesday, November 11, followed by the fifth and final qualification round on Thursday, November 12; the top eight after those rounds will advance to the final.