India, April 15 -- Young 10m air pistol shooter Saurabh Chaudhary, back in the national team after almost two years, marked his steady rise with a bronze medal while his cousin Varun Tomar finished fourth in the final on the first competition day of the ISSF Shooting World Cup in Lima, Peru on Tuesday.

Saurabh, 22, still some way off the nerveless shooter that he was a few seasons ago, shot 219.1 to finish behind China's Kai Hu (246.4) and Brazil's Felipe Almeida Wu (241) in the eight-man field that also featured China's world No.1 and Paris Games gold medallist Yu Xie. His last individual World Cup medal was at the Cairo World Cup in 2022 where he had won gold.

Saurabh, who was second after the first competition series, slipped to fift...