Indian Shooter Yugan Sakthivel Muthukumaar Claims Men's Trap Gold at ISSF Junior World Cup Shotgun 2026

Key facts

• Indian shooter Yugan Sakthivel Muthukumaar, aged 15, won gold in the men's trap event at the ISSF Junior World Cup Shotgun 2026 in Porpetto, Italy, hitting 27 of 30 targets in the final to finish one target ahead of Italy's Francesco Tanfoglio and secure India's first medal at the meet.
• Yugan qualified sixth for the final with a score of 114/125 and entered the medal round via a shoot-off; among other Indians in men's trap qualification, Arjun and Vinay Pratap Singh Chandrawat finished 12th and 13th with 112, and Udhav Singh Rathore was 16th with 111.
• In the women's trap event, Sabeera Haris was the only Indian to reach the final, qualifying sixth with 108/125 through a shoot-off, but finished sixth after hitting nine of 15 targets; Bhavya Tripathi and Krishika Joshi missed the final, both scoring 105 to finish ninth and 10th.
• India won no medals in the junior men's and women's skeet events, with no shooter advancing to either final.
• The Porpetto event is the second junior ISSF World Cup of 2026; the first, held in Cairo, Egypt, in April, saw India top the medal tally with 16 medals (five gold, six silver, five bronze), with Zuhair Khan and Addya Katyal's mixed trap bronze its only shotgun medal.
• The tournament concludes on Saturday with the junior mixed team trap event, the final medal event.