India’s Mairaj Ahmed Khan has won the silver medal in the men’s skeet event at ISSF World Cup held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 
•    In the final, Mairaj lost gold medal to Sweden’s Marcus Svensson and the bronze medal was won by TamarroCasandro of Italy. 
•    With this victory, he becomes first Indian shooter to win skeet medal for India at a World Cup. 
•    Earlier in September 2016 he had qualified for his maiden Olympics after finishing in sixth place at the ISSF Shotgun World Cup. 
•    He is the first Indian to qualify in the skeet event at the Olympics. 
•    In the 2010, Commonwealth Shooting Championship he had won a team gold medal which was his best international performance earlier.
•    Mairaj's best international performance previous to this was a team gold in the Commonwealth Shooting Championship in 2010.
•    Out of 26 World Cup appearances this was his best ever finish in his first-ever final round.