Dhanush breaks world records as India sweeps men’s air rifle event at Deaf Shooting Worlds.

Dhanush Srikanth shattered the world record in both qualification and final to win the men’s air rifle gold in style at the second World Deaf shooting championship in Hannover, Germany, on Sunday.

It was a clean sweep of medals by Indian shooters as Shourya Saini and Mohamed Vania followed Dhanush to bag the silver and bronze medals respectively. The trio had finished in that order in qualification as well.

In women’s air rifle, Mira Biatovszki of Hungary shot a world record 247.8 to beat the Indian shooters Mahit Sandhu and Natasha Joshi to the gold. Mahit who won the silver had shot a world record 627.7 in qualification.

Priyesha Deshmukh shot the second best qualification score of 623.3 but placed eighth in the final, while Natasha Joshi did well to climb to the bronze medal.

India had earlier won the women’s air pistol gold through Anuya Prasad, apart from clinching the silver and bronze medals in men’s air pistol through Abhinav Deshwal and Shubham Vashist.