Bharatiya shooters won a silver medal in the women’s 50m rifle 3 position event at the Asian Games on September 27. The trio of Ashi Chouksey, Manini Koushik and Sift Kaur Samra shot a total of 1,764 points in the qualification to finish second on the podium. Notably, Samra and Chauksey qualified for the finals as well as by finishing second and sixth respectively while Kaushik bowed out in the individual event by finishing 18th. Sift scored a total of 594 to create a joint new Asian record for qualifying.
