India, Sept. 26 -- Even as Jonathan Gavin Anthony was shooting spectacularly in the final of the 10m air pistol, a familiar face sitting just behind him looked tense. Jitu Rai - one of India's finest pistol shooters and now Jonathan's coach - knows only too well that a contest isn't over until the last shot is fired.

He wanted his trainee to stay calm, keep producing big scores, and widen the gap from his rivals. Jonathan did exactly that, building on a solid start to win his maiden ISSF Junior World Cup title at the Karni Singh range here.

He was unstoppable, and the rest of the field simply gave up on chasing him. With a score of 244.8, the 16-year-old Jonathan fell just 1.5 points short of Saurabh Chaudhary's junior world record. Sil...