China’s Sheng Lihao, for instance, successfully defended his gold and improved his score by 0.9 points. The score for the silver medallist, meanwhile, remained unchanged at 252.4 – Zhang Changhong had posted the same score in 2023, while Himanshu matched it in 2026. The bigger change came at the bottom of the podium, with both bronze medallists being Indian. Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar won bronze with 228.8 points in 2023; this year, Rudrankksh Patil claimed it with 230.9 points.
