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India's Yugan Sakthivel Muthukumaar, 15, won men's trap gold at the ISSF Junior World Cup Shotgun 2026 in Porpetto, Italy, on 18 September 2026.
He hit 27 of 30 targets in the eight-shooter final, one ahead of Italy's Francesco Tanfoglio.
He had qualified sixth with 114 of 125 and entered the final through a shoot-off.
It was India's first medal at the Porpetto meet; Sabeera Haris finished sixth in women's trap.
Porpetto is the second ISSF Junior World Cup of 2026; India topped the medal table at the first, in Cairo in April, with 16 medals.
World governing body for Olympic shooting sports, founded in 1907, with about 150 member federations; runs World Cups, World Championships and Olympic quota events
National federation governing shooting in India; selects Indian teams for ISSF events
Porpetto is in north-eastern Italy, host of the second ISSF Junior World Cup of 2026. The first, in April, was in Cairo, Egypt, and unlike Porpetto covered rifle and pistol as well as shotgun.
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A shotgun event in which clay targets are thrown from a single trap house at varying angles; qualification is shot over 125 targets.
A tie-break in which shooters fire additional targets to decide the remaining places in a final.
The ISSF's age-group World Cup circuit for junior shooters, held in multiple stages each year.