new delhi her tears after a blank in two events hadnt dried up but with triumph on wednesday manu bhaker was able to pick herself up with a sense of relief as she ended her first issf world cup on home soil with a gold medal around her neckthe 2018 commonwealth games champion teamed up with asian games gold medallist saurabh chaudhary to top the podium in the 10m air pistol mixed team event and together the two youth olympics games gold medallists helped india win its third gold to finish joint first on the medals tally with hungary in four days of competition before wednesday 16yearold bhaker had lived the horror of failing to reach her favourite 10m air pistol final and finishing fifth in the 25m pistol final after which she broke down and said sorry for not living up to the expectationson the last day of the tournament she kind of redeemed herself but bhaker knows she cant make up for missing the olympic quotas in individual events its not a big relief but satisfaction actually in the earlier events i couldnt do well despite efforts now i have won a medal so it builds hope that i can do better next time so thats why satisfaction thats how bhaker put her world cup in words nerves could be seen in bhakers play as she cancelled her shot on more than one occasion i was trying not to cancel because then the other shooter chaudhary doesnt get time to release the shot i was trying but it wasnt happening so i had to cancel its always good to cancel than release a bad shot the haryana girl said meanwhile chaudhary who had also won the mens 10m air pistol gold with indias only olympic quota from the event took motivation from his childhood coach amit sheoran in attendancei got a lot of confidence because my guru was with me so there was no pressure he said bhaker then touched upon how chaudhary is different saurabhs mindset is a lot different than me in shooting actually he never loses hope he is always positive always says hum kar sakte hain karenge we can do it we will do it he doesnt speak much otherwise in fact he speaks very less she explained the gold medallist pair then concluded with a combined statement on how they go about the mixed team eventwe tell each other i will give my best you give your bestit wasnt a surprise then that bhaker and chaudhary shot a combined score of 4834 in the final on wednesday after topping the qualification by equalling the senior qualification world record of 778 it was also a new qualification world record in junior category