It was then the turn of Divyansh Singh Panwar to team up with Croatian legend Snjezana Pejcic, to win the trophy in the 10m Air Rifle Mixed team competition. Divyansh and Snjezana prevailed 16-14 over Apurvi Chandela and D. Zhang.

The Mixed Team events were a new format with competitors from different countries and as such the medals were not counted in the final tally.

It got even better, when Shahzar Rizvi also won bronze in the 10m Air Pistol Mixed team competition.

Both Manu and Divyansh had earlier won their individual 10m Air competitions as well to ensure that India topped the medals tally in Putian with a total of three gold medals.

That mirrored India’s dominance throughout the year in ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup stages, where in a first, India topped all four of them.

Three Indian shooters namely Saurabh Chaudhary in the 10m Air Pistol, Elavenil Valarivan in the Women’s 10m Air Rifle and Divyansh Singh Panwar in the 10m Air Rifle, finished on top of the 2019 ISSF rankings.