Bharat’s Sift Kaur Samra bagged a gold while Ashi Chouksey got a
bronze medal in the women’s 50 m rifle 3P individual final at the ongoing Asian
Games in Hangzhou, giving the country a double podium finish.
With the score of 469.6 points, Sift not only topped the charts to
secure a gold, but also broke the world record, Asian record and the Asian
Games record. The world record was held by Great Britain, the Asian record was
held by China and the Asian Games record was previously held by Mongolia.
The silver medal went to Qiongyue Zhang of China with 462.3 points
and the bronze went to Ashi with 451.9 points.
With this, Bharat has its ninth medal in shooting currently at the
event and its fifth overall gold medal at the Asian Games Hangzhou.
Earlier today, the Indian shooting trio of Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh
and Rhythm Sangwan continued the country’s dominating run at shooting as they
captured a Gold medal in women’s 25 m pistol team event at the ongoing Asian
Games in Hangzhou.
Bharat got a total of 1759 points, enough to clinch the gold. The
silver medal was secured by China with 1756 points. South Korea got the bronze medal
with a total of 1742 points.
Also, Ashi Chouksey, Manini Kaushik and Sift Kaur Samara secured a
silver medal for Bharat in the women’s 50 m rifle 3P team shooting event. With
a score of 1754 points, Bharat secured a silver medal at the event, falling
just 19 points short of a gold medal.
Bharat got a total of 1759 points, enough to clinch the gold. The
silver medal was secured by China with 1756 points. South Korea got the bronze
medal with a total of 1742 points.
Earlier, the team of Divyansh Singh Panwar, Rudrankksh Patil,
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar had captured a world-record-breaking gold in men’s
10 metre air rifle team. Also in the women’s 10 m air rifle team, the trio of
Mehuli Ghosh, Ramita Jindal and Ashi Chouksey had got a silver.
Ramita also secured a bronze medal in the women’s 10 m air rifle
individual event.
Aishwary had also won a bronze in the men’s 10 m air rifle
individual event. The men’s 25 m rapid-fire pistol trio of Adarsh Singh,
Vijayveer Sidhu and Anish Bhanwala had also got a bronze to their name.
Now Bharat has 18 medals at the ongoing Hangzhou meet, with five
golds, five silvers and eight bronze medals.
ANI
