New Delhi, Nov. 10 -- The Indian 25m women's pistol team won a gold medal at the ISSF World Championships in Doha on Tuesday but that provided little consolation as Manu Bhaker and Esha Singh, the two finalists, failed to secure an LA Olympic quota place.

Manu came agonisingly close to winning the coveted quota and medal for India after multiple shoot-offs in a high quality final, but fell just short, finishing fourth. The first three shooters -- Olympic Champion Jin Yang of Korea, Thu Vinh Trinh of Vietnam and Yueyue Zhang of China -- grabbed the three available Olympic quota spots from the event.

Double Paris Olympics medallist Manu had earlier finished fifth in air pistol, missing the quota in that event. India have so far won just o...