London: Leuris Pupo from Cuba won the gold. Pupo also equalled the finals world record with 34. Vijay shot 28. Feng Ding from China won the bronze medal.
Vijay Kumar shoots silver medal in 25m Rapid Fire Pistol at London Olympics! India now have 2 medals at the 2012 London Olympics.
Vijay Kumar's eighth series: 2/5. TOTAL SCORE: 32/40
Vijay Kumar's seventh series: 4/5. TOTAL SCORE: 28/35
Another good news for India. Alexei Klimov
of Russia has been eliminated. The contest is now between just three players!
Vijay Kumar's sixth series: 4/5. TOTAL SCORE: 24/30
Good news for India. Jian Zhang from China has been eliminated.
Vijay Kumar's fifth series: 4/5. TOTAL SCORE: 20/25 He is now joint second, a silver medal position for the time being.
Christian Reitz from Germany has been eliminated!
Vijay Kumar's fourth series: 3/5. TOTAL SCORE: 16/20He is now joint second.
Vijay Kumar's third series: 4/5. TOTAL SCORE: 13/15 He is joint first with two other marksmen. Five more series to go!
Vijay Kumar's second series: 4/5. TOTAL SCORE: 9/10
Vijay Kumar's first series: 5/5
Marksman Vijay Kumar lifted the Indian shooting team`s spirit by qualifying for the final of the men`s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol event at the Olympic Games here today.
En route to his total score of 585, Kumar became the second shooter to break the previous Olympic record of 583 during the second stage of qualification.
Placed fourth in the list, Kumar, who had scored 293 in stage 1 of the qualification yesterday, shot a series of 98 97 97 in the second stage to take his total score to 585.
He shot a sequence of 99 96 98 at the Royal Artillery Barracks.
The Army man will be competing with five shooters for a medal.
Pre-Games medal favourite Ronjan Sodhi had yesterday failed to qualify for the double trap event.
Russian Alexei Klimov created a new world record by shooting 592.
He scored a total of 592 after Stage 2, breaking the existing world record of 591 and Olympic record of 583, with 294 points in Stage 1 and a staggering 298 out of 300 in Stage 2.