Asian Shooting C’Ship: Indian junior shooters win four gold medals in skeet and rifle events

The Indian juniors won four gold medals at the 2023 Asian Shooting Championship being held in Changwon, Korea on Thursday. India are now in second position on the medal tally behind powerhouses China.

Harmehar Lally won the junior men’s skeet, hitting 52 of the 60 targets in the final to lead an Indian 1-2 as Bhavtegh Gill clinched silver with 50 hits. The duo also teamed up with Rituraj Bundela to win the team gold in the event. Two other team golds came in the women’s skeet and the women’s 10m air rifle competitions respectively.

Gautami Bhanot and Abhinav Shaw also won individual silver and bronze medals in the women’s and men’s 10m air rifle even as Raiza Dhillon won a silver in the junior women’s skeet, to round-off an eight-medal day for India, who now have six gold, five silver and two bronze medals from the campaign so far along with one Paris Olympic quota place.

The medal rush began early on Thursday with the junior women’s skeet, when Dhillon, Mufaddal Deesawala and Sanjana Sood shot a total of 332 to win the junior women’s skeet team gold. Dhillon, who had topped the qualification round with a score of 116 out of...

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