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India’s Navnath Farthate won the gold medal in the junior men’s air rifle event at the World Shooting Championship here today.

He shot 596 out of 600 to become the second Indian junior ever to win a gold medal at the quadrennial event.

Jaspal Rana had won the gold as a junior in standard pistol in 1994.

This is India’s second gold in the championship after Abhinav Bindra won the 10m air rifle event yesterday.

India has also won two bronze medals and two Olympic quota places so far here.

Indian had won the first ever team medal in a junior competition on the opening day of the championship when they claimed the bronze in the air pistol event.

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