Olympics: Shooter Vijay Kumar bags silver in 25 metre rapid fire event

London: Army marksman Vijay Kumar won a silver medal for India in the men's 25 metre rapid fire event at the 2012 London Olympics here on Friday. The gold went to Cuban Leuris Pupo while Chinese Feng Ding got the bronze.
Pupo kept his cool to win Cuba's first gold. Pupo scored 34 to edge out India's Vijay Kumar, who took silver with 30 after hitting just 2 from the last 5 sohots. China's Ding Feng won bronze after being edged out by Kumar by one point in the final elimination round.
Russia's Alexei Klimov who set a new world record of 592 in qualifying stages, struggled in the final round after two low-scoring rounds early on he eventually finished fourth and was out of the medal contention.