London: Ace Indian double trap shooter Ronjan Sodhi, one of the brightest hopes for India at the London Olympics failed to live up to the expectation after he failed to qualify for the finals of the men’s double trap event at the Royal Artillery Barracks here today.
Sodhi who required to shoot at least 147 to move into the medals round below par outing and fired 134 out of 150 to finish 11th out of 24 competitors in the qualifying rounds.
Sodhi started off on a good note and scored 48 in the opening round out of 50 but there after his performance went down and he scored 44 and 42 in the next two subsequent attempts that killed his hopes.
The former World number 1 and world champion was seen a hope but then he finished nine points behind the leader Peter Wilson of Great Britain, the current world No 1 to become one more heavyweight casualty for India at the mega event.
The other five shooters who qualified for the final besides Wilson are Vasily Mosin of Russia, Fehaid Aldeehani of Kuwait, Russia's Vitaly Fokeev, Sweden's Hakan Dahlby and Richard Bognar of Hungary.
Meanwhile, pistol shooter Vijay Kumar fifth place finish in the first round of the qualifiers in the men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol saw him stay in contention and bring some cheers for the Indian shooting team.
He scored a total of 293 points with 7 inner 10s in the first stage for an average score of 9.767.
By Indian Sports News Network
