Indian skeet shooters miss individual medal rounds, finish outside team podium

Doha The seasoned Indian men’s and women’s skeet shooters endured a disappointing outing at the ISSF World Championships in Doha on Friday (November 6, 2026), missing out on the individual medal rounds and finishing outside the medal positions in the team events. Their hopes of securing a quota place for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics also ended without success. A day after Jaypal Malviya clinched a silver medal in the men’s 10m air pistol event to secure an Olympic quota for India and provide some cheer after a difficult run of results, the skeet shooters were unable to make much of an impact.

Leading the men's challenge was 51-year-old Olympian Mairaj Ahmad Khan, who has more than three decades of experience in the sport. He shot 118 out of 125 across five rounds of 25 shots each to finish 46th in a field of 113 shooters. Anantjeet Singh Naruka, who won a medal at this year's Asian Games in Japan, and Bhavtegh Singh Gill fared marginally better, both shooting 119 to finish 25th and 24th, respectively.

India's combined score of 356 earned the men's team sixth place.