{"id":27628,"date":"2018-04-11T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=27628"},"modified":"2018-04-11T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T11:48:00","slug":"cwg-2018-ankur-mittal-bags-bronze-as-shooters-continue-good-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/cwg-2018-ankur-mittal-bags-bronze-as-shooters-continue-good-run\/","title":{"rendered":"CWG 2018: Ankur Mittal bags bronze as shooters continue good run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ankur Mittal on Wednesday added to the Indian shooting contingent&#8217;s medal rush by winning a bronze in the men&#8217;s double trap event of the 21st Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Mittal finished third on the podium after scoring 53 in the finals at the Belmont Shooting Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Asab, the other Indian shooter in the six-man finals, finished in the fourth position, a climbdown from the bronze medal he won in Glasgow four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland&#8217;s David Mcmath claimed the gold medal with a Games record 74, while the silver went to Tim Kneale (70) of Isle of Man.<\/p>\n<p>The experienced James Willett was the first to be eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>Mittal, the 26-year-old, who won silver medal in the World Championships in Moscow last year besides a silver and gold in the ISSF World Cups, rallied to finish fifth with 133 in the qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>Mittal had to be contend with a fifth-place finish in the 2014 Games.<\/p>\n<p>Asab shot 137 to get into a shoot-off with McMath in the qualification before finishing second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ankur Mittal on Wednesday added to the Indian shooting contingent&#8217;s medal rush by winning a bronze in the men&#8217;s double trap event of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27630,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27628\/revisions\/27630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}