Athens, Oct 12 (PTI) None of the Indian shooters could make the individual finals in either the men's or women's skeet events at the ISSF World Championship for Shotgun, here on Sunday.

In the women's skeet event, Olympian Raiza Dhillon was the best-placed Indian, finishing 16th among 58 shooters with a score of 116 out of 125, three points short of the cut-off mark of 119 required to make the six-shooter final.

Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Ganemat Sekhon shot identical scores of 110 each to end 44th and 47th respectively, as India finished eighth in the team standings out of 12 participating nations.

The day belonged to the United States, as world No.1 Samantha Simonton and four-time Olympic champion Vincent Hancock claimed the women's and men's skeet world championship titles respectively, l

See Full Page