{"id":3860,"date":"2026-09-18T23:26:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2026-09-18T23:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:56:38","slug":"yugan-sakthivel-muthukumaar-wins-trap-men-junior-gold-in-porpetto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/?p=3860","title":{"rendered":"Yugan Sakthivel Muthukumaar wins Trap Men Junior gold in Porpetto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"562\" data-id=\"3861\" src=\"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/sports-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/sports-5.png 450w, https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/sports-5-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Porpetto (Italy), India&#8217;s Yugan Sakthivel Muthukumaar won the gold medal in the Trap Men Junior event at the ISSF Junior World Cup Shotgun on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 15-year-old marksman hit 27 targets in a closely contested final to edge out Italy&#8217;s Francesco Tanfoglio by a single hit. Tanfoglio claimed the silver medal with 26 hits, while fellow Italian Simone Roncen secured bronze with 21 targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, Yugan demonstrated remarkable composure to advance to the medal round. He shot a qualification score of 114 across five rounds (22, 22, 24, 23, 23) to finish tied for sixth place. In the subsequent shoot-off for the last qualification spot, the Indian shooter held his nerve to defeat Spain&#8217;s Eduard Salichs 2-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting from the sixth position in the final, Yugan maintained consistent rhythm throughout the elimination stages. He struck decisive hits in the closing sequences to finish ahead of a competitive field and secure India&#8217;s first medal of the meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spain&#8217;s Jose Barrero finished fourth with 15 hits, while Italy&#8217;s Andrea Diana, who had topped the qualification stage with a score of 120, placed fifth with 11 targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porpetto (Italy), India&#8217;s Yugan Sakthivel Muthukumaar won the gold medal in the Trap Men Junior event at the ISSF Junior World Cup Shotgun on Friday. The 15-year-old marksman hit 27 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-display","category-sports","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3862,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions\/3862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}