Japanese Dai Yoshioka and Nikita Chiryukin of Kazakhstan won gold and silver, respectively in the 25m rapid fire pistol event.

Olympian and World silver medalist Anish Bhanwala clinched bronze in the men’s 25m rapid-fire pistol (RFP) at the Asian Rifle/Pistol Championship in progress here at Delhi’s Dr Karni Singh Shooting Ranges.

On Wednesday, Japanese Dai Yoshioka, a two-time Olympian and a World Cup gold medalist was the winner of gold in men’s 25m rapid fire pistol with 31 points. Yoshioka’s performance earned him a World and Asian record (31 points).  

Silver went to Nikita Chiryukin of Kazakhstan whose point tally was 28. Bhanwala scored 23 to settle for bronze on the home ranges

Earlier, in the first event of the day, Islam Satpayev, a talented Kazakh rifle shooter won the men’s 50m rifle prone men’s title. Satpayev had won bronze at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the mixed team event. He won the individual event with a score of 622.5 and also the team gold with teammates Nikita Shakhtorin (622.5, individual silver) and Konstantin Malinovsky (615.0).

India won a bronze through Babu Singh Panwar (621.3) in the individual men’s event and a silver in the team event when Babu combined with Samarvir Singh (618.2) and Sartaj Singh Tiwana (614.4).

In the junior men’s rifle prone, India’s Adriyan Karmakar won gold with a tally of 621.7 over 60 shots. The Kazakhs took silver and bronze through Oleg Noskov (620.6) and Tamerlan Kabulov (617.3). Kazakhstan also took the team gold in the event with a tally of 1848.7, being better than India’s 1847.6.

In the final event of the day, the junior men’s 25m RFP, Indonesia’s Muhamad Fawwaz Aditia Farrel took gold with a score of 29 in the final, which was also a World and Asian junior record. India’s Suraj Sharma took silver with 23 and Mukesh Nelavalli bronze with a score of 19.

Meanwhile, India continued to lead the medal tally with 41 gold, 19 silver and 15 bronze medals.

EOM