Asian Shooting C’Ship: India win gold in men’s skeet team and silver in 10m air pistol mixed team

The Indian men’s skeet team comprising Anant Jeet Singh Naruka, Gurjoat Khangura and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, won gold at the 15th Asian Shooting Championship in Changwon, Korea on Wednesday.

India with a combined total of 358 was enough to pip team Korea by a point, with Kazakhstan finishing third. In the individual final, Naruka was fourth and Khangura sixth, thereby missing out on both the individual medals and the two available Paris Olympic quota places.

Sarabjot Singh and Surbhi Rao also won a silver for India in the 10m air pistol mixed team event. They shot a combined 581 in qualification, the same score shot by four other teams including two Chinese pairs who took the top two positions by virtue of greater accuracy.

The Indians were third, but as only one team from a country could make the final, Singh and Rao were drawn to play Li Xue and Liu Jinyao for gold. The Chinese prevailed 16-4 however and the Indians took home silver.

In the junior events, Shubham Bisla and Sainyam won bronze in the 10m air pistol mixed team competition, overcoming Kazakhstan’s Malika Seil and Kiril Tsukanov 16-10 in the first bronze medal match.

Naruka, who recently won silver at the Hangzhou Asiad, shot...

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