New Delhi, Nov. 9 -- Olympian Anish Bhanwala survived a total of four shoot-offs to clinch silver, his first senior individual world championship medal, on day two of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championship Rifle/Pistol in Cairo on Sunday.

The 23-year-old kept his composure in the second last series to survive a double shoot off against bronze medal winner, Maksym Horodynets of Ukraine and go into the final series to shoot for the gold medal, which was eventually won by Clement Bessaguet of France, who upgraded his back-to-back silver medals in the competition. Earlier, Anish survived another double shoot-off for fourth place against Emanuel Mueller of Germany, as per a press release from the National Rifle ...