India Won the Men's 50m Pistol Team Gold at the ISSF World Championships in Doha on 3 November 2026 With 1659-24x, and Ravinder Singh Took Individual Silver on 559-11x

Ravinder Singh, Saurabh Chaudhary and Amanpreet Singh won the men’s 50m pistol team gold at the ISSF World Championships in Doha on 3 November 2026. Their combined 1659-24x was 11 points clear of China (1648-26x) and 16 clear of South Korea (1643-26x), according to the results page of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF). Ravinder also won individual silver with 559-11x, two points behind Anton Aristarkhov of the Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN), who shot 561-9x. Romania’s Luca Joldea took bronze with 558-5x.

The 50m pistol is not an Olympic event, so no Los Angeles 2028 quota places were awarded in it. The ISSF scheduled the men’s event for 3 November at 09:15. The championships run from 1 to 14 November at the Lusail Shooting Complex, and the ISSF says 1,041 athletes from 91 countries are entered.

Every series, shooter by shooter

A team total is the sum of three shooters’ individual scores, each made up of six series. The figure after the dash counts inner tens, the shots in the central ring; PTI calls them “inner 10s”. The ISSF lists the Indian scores as follows.

• Ravinder Singh, 559-11x: 96, 93, 95, 93, 89, 93.
• Saurabh Chaudhary, 551-7x: 93, 90, 94, 92, 91, 91.
• Amanpreet Singh, 549-6x: 89, 94, 94, 94, 90, 88.

Added series by series, India shot 278, 277, 283, 279, 270 and 272. China’s trio was Zhang Bingchen (555-12x), Lyu Junyi (549-7x) and Feng Linlang (544-7x). South Korea’s was Hong Suhyeon (550-7x), Choe Boram (549-12x) and So Seung Seob (544-7x). Uzbekistan finished fourth with 1638-33x and Ukraine fifth with 1636-21x, in a field of eight teams.

The individual silver

The individual results list 41 shooters. Ravinder opened with a 96, the joint-highest first series in the field alongside Aristarkhov, and closed with 89 and 93 for his 559. Aristarkhov’s series were 96, 92, 96, 96, 93 and 88. Zhang Bingchen (555-12x) and Iran’s Vahid Golkhandan (555-11x) finished fourth and fifth. Saurabh was 11th on 551-7x and Amanpreet 19th on 549-6x.

All India Radio and Sportstar both reported the team gold and the silver on 3 November. All India Radio’s bulletin that evening put India second in the medal table behind China, with one gold and two silvers.

What the three had won before

Ravinder, born on 17 October 1996, was already the individual 50m pistol world champion. In Cairo on 8 November 2025 he scored 569-12x, 13 points ahead of South Korea’s Kim Cheongyong (556-12x). His ISSF profile also lists the individual bronze at Baku in 2023 with 556. In Cairo he was part of the Indian team that took silver with 1646-26x, two points behind South Korea’s 1648-29x, alongside Kamaljeet and Yogesh Kumar. The Doha winning total is 13 points higher than that 2025 silver-medal score.

Saurabh Chaudhary, born on 12 May 2002, has nine ISSF World Cup gold medals on his profile, a junior world title in 10m air pistol from Changwon in 2018 and the 2018 Youth Olympic gold in Buenos Aires. He finished seventh in the 10m air pistol final at Tokyo 2020. PTI describes him as a multiple-time World Cup gold medallist.

Amanpreet Singh, born on 28 December 1987 in Phillaur, Punjab, took silver in the 50m pistol at the ISSF World Cup in New Delhi in 2017 and bronze at that year’s World Cup Final in the same city, the ISSF profile shows. He told RevSportz that the 50m pistol is “a kind of shooting Test match” that demands patience, and said he hopes the event returns to the Olympics. RevSportz also reports him calling the result India’s first 50m pistol gold at a World Championship, and its summary calls it the first team gold. The ISSF pages opened for this article do not state that claim, and the same ISSF archive shows Ravinder’s individual gold in 2025, so it is best read as a statement about the team event.

The Olympic places at the same championships

Doha is the first qualification event for Los Angeles 2028. The ISSF says there are 36 quota places, three in each of the 12 individual Olympic events, and that a country can win at most one in each event and 12 in all. ANI, citing a press release from the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI), reports that shooting offered no quota places at the Asian Games, so Doha is India’s first chance to win some. India entered three shooters in each individual Olympic event, a squad of 35, the Free Press Journal reports on the eve of the championships.

India’s other results on 3 November were in the air rifle events. The women’s 10m air rifle team of Elavenil Valarivan (634.2), Sonam Uttam Maskar (630.5) and Shambhavi Shravan Kshirsagar (629.7) won silver with 1894.4, behind China’s 1899.8 and ahead of Japan’s 1892.6. Valarivan then finished sixth in the individual final with 167.3; the three quota places in that final went to South Korea, China and France. In the men’s 10m air rifle, the places went to China, Croatia and Slovakia, and PTI reported that India’s Rakesh Mane, Himanshu Dhillon and Paarth Makhija did not reach the finals.

On 5 November Jaypal Malviya won silver in the men’s 10m air pistol with 242.2, 1.7 points behind China’s Hu Kai (243.9). The ISSF says the three quota places in that final went to China, India and Czechia, and RevSportz calls it India’s first Olympic quota of the championships. Manu Bhaker, whose Paris 2024 medals are covered in a separate article, finished fifth in the women’s 10m air pistol final with 179.9, and Suruchi Inder Singh was sixth with 158.3. The 15 shooting medals India won at the Asian Games, from which the squad arrived, are set out in India at the Asian Games 2026.

The championships run to 14 November. The ISSF says further quota opportunities will follow at World Championships, World Cups and continental events through 2027 and 2028.