On Friday Indian shooters collected six gold, three silver and one bronze to stay ahead of their rivals in the continental competition
Indian shooting contingent medal tally surged to 26 medals, 16 of them gold at the end of the third day of the Asian rifle/pistol championship in progress at Delhi’s Dr Karni Singh Shooting Ranges.
On Friday Indian shooters collected six gold, three silver and one bronze to stay ahead of their rivals in the continental competition.
Rudrankksh B. Patil and Arjun Babuta claimed gold and silver in the men’s 10m air rifle today.
It was a clean sweep for Indian shooters in the 10m air rifle junior group. Himanshu Dhillon, Ansh Dabas and Naren Pranav V.S finished in top three in that order.
In the mixed team pairs of Mukesh Nelavalli and Vanshika Chaudhary and Girish Gupta and Shiksha Saran secured gold in the 10m air pistol junior and youth mixed team events.
Rudrankksh and Arjun started their finals slowly and were placed outside the medal places after the first series of shots. Rudrankksh got hold of momentum from the second series and took the lead in the 16th shot, maintaining it to the end to secure his first ever Asian Championship medal. Arjun also climbed to the second spot at the end of the 16th shot. Both Indian’s maintained their positions on top from then on with Rudrankksh finishing with a final score of 251.9, 1.2 points more than Arjun who finished on 250.7. Japan’s Naoya Okada, who was leading the field until the 16th shot, took bronze with a score of 229.3.
In the youth mixed team finals, Shiksha Saran and Girish Gupta dominated the finals to win gold ahead of Shirinbibi Rajabova and Khaydarali Sattorov of Tajikistan who won silver and Shakizada Mazova and Matvey Tikhonov of Kazakhstan who won bronze.
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