Esha Singh fifth after precision stage at shooting World Championship; 25m pistol final in Doha on Tuesday

Esha Singh is fifth at the halfway mark of the women’s 25m pistol at the ISSF World Championship in Doha. The 21-year-old from Hyderabad, ranked No. 1 in the world in the event, shot series of 97, 96 and 99 in the precision stage at the Lusail Shooting Complex on Monday, 9 November, for 292 out of 300.

Hungary’s Veronika Major leads the field of 80 with 296, one point clear of Germany’s Doreen Vennekamp. Four shooters finished on 292 and the count of inner tens separated them: Korea’s Yang Jiin had 15 and is fourth, Esha had nine, and Portugal’s Filipa Marracho and Joana Castelao are sixth and seventh. Manu Bhaker and Divya T.S. both made 289 and sit 15th and 20th.

Rapid fire, then the final on Tuesday

The 30-shot rapid-fire stage, the second half of qualification, comes on Tuesday, 10 November. Esha fires in the second relay at 10.15 am Doha time, or 12.45 pm IST, and Manu in the third. The eight best totals out of 600 go through to the final at 2 pm local time, 4.30 pm IST. India’s Rhythm Sangwan holds the qualification world record of 595.

Olympic places are on offer too. Doha hands out three Los Angeles 2028 quota places in each Olympic individual event, 12 events in all. They go to the best-placed eligible shooters, capped at one per country, and no shooter can earn two. Major already won one for Hungary with her bronze in the 10m air pistol on 5 November, so a top finish for her would send that place down to the next eligible shooter. India’s Jaypal Malviya earned a quota the same day with silver in the men’s 10m air pistol.

Two World Cup golds in 2026

Esha won bronze in this event at the 2025 World Championship in Cairo after qualifying with 587. In 2026 she has taken 25m pistol gold at the World Cups in Munich and Hangzhou, hitting 43 in the Munich final on 27 May for a world record, and silver at the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya. At the Paris Olympics in 2024 she was 18th in the event.

Earlier on Monday, Vidarsa Vinod missed the 50m rifle 3 positions final on a tie-break. Her 589 equalled the scores of Japan’s Misaki Nobata and Switzerland’s Chiara Leone in seventh and eighth, but she had 30 inner tens to their 34 and finished ninth of 60. Anjum Moudgil was 31st with 584 and Ashi Chouksey 50th with 580. India are fifth on the medal table with one gold, five silver and one bronze, and the championship ends with the trap mixed team final on Friday, 13 November.