pune it was a day of many firsts for indian shooting the biggest of them all was anjum moudgil clinching silver medal in womens 10m air rifle event at the issf world championships in changwon korea on mondayanother first was anjum 24 and apurvi chandela 25 winning quota places for the 2020 tokyo olympics by finishing in topfour in the finalanjum scored 2484 in the final to win silver while apurvi shot 207 to finish fourthit was also their firstever appearances in the quadrennial eventtop four shooters in the world championships finals get quotas this is first occasion when two indians have won quota places together at the world championships or any competition everabhinav bindra 2006 manavjit singh sandhu 2006 gagan narang 2010 and jitu rai 2014 had won quotas at the world championships earlierthe medal and quota was special for anjum since 10m is not her pet event rifle 3 position is my pet event and the final today was special i was confident since the beginning today and was able to execute my shots well winning a medal and a quota place is a great feeling anjum told toi from changwonanjum had missed out on reaching 3position final at the asian games she admitted disappointment of not winning the medal at asiad was playing on her mindi was participating in only one event at asiad and not winning there was hurtful i was thinking about it and wanted to do well here since i am shooting in two events she saidwith quota in training harder will be her priority i have been shooting continuously for a while i will first take a small break and then will begin training for the 2020 games apurvi saidearlier anjum had qualified fourth for the 8woman final by shooting 6287 while apurvi shot 6275 to qualify seventhin the final it was apurvi who got off to a better start among the two indians apurvi started the medal round with a 106 followed by a 109 she led the pack after first five shots with 522 points while anjum was fourthbut as the shots progressed anjum displayed immense consistency and shot a series of shots that went over 105 points anjum climbed up to the second position and maintained the lead on the other hand apurvi shot lower 10s which pushed her to the fourth position she had a small window of taking the third spot and avoid elimination but a 96 in her 19th shot snatched away her chance she finished with 207 pointsanjum ended the final with 2484 while koreas hana im won gold with 2511 bronze went to another korean eunhea jung with 228 pointsthe third indian in fray young mehuli ghosh finished 48th with 6228 in the qualification round her score combined with anjum and apurvis got india the team silverin the mens 10m air rifle event deepak kumar missed out on a medal as well as a quota by finishing sixth in the final after scoring 1641 he