PTI
Cairo, May 22: Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore clinched the fourth Olympic quota place for the country at the ISSF World Cup in Cairo, Egypt.
He won the double trap gold and topped the field with a score of 182 after making it to the finals through sudden death.
Rathore shot a score of 137 (47+46+44) in the preliminaries, but bounced back with an excellent 45 in the final in which he hit the bird in the last 10 rounds.
Keeping cool
"I knew that I wanted to do my best. In the extreme weather conditions, I kept my nerves to get the quota," said Rathore.
"People are very thrilled here because it is quite unprecedented to jump from sixth place to number one in the finals," he added.
Gagan Narang and Anjali Bhagwat (rifle) and Manavjit Singh Sandhu (trap) are the other three Indians to have won a quota place for the Beijing Games in 2008.