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Indian shooters swell medal tally
Indian shooters swell medal tally. It was double delight for India as Gurpreet Singh and Jitu Rai clinched the silver and bronze respectively in men\'s 10m air pistol event at the 8th Asian Air Gun Championship here on Tuesday.
New Delhi: It was double delight for India as Gurpreet Singh and Jitu Rai clinched the silver and bronze respectively in men's 10m air pistol event at the 8th Asian Air Gun Championship here on Tuesday.
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Iran's Sepehr Boroujeni Safari, who was seventh in the qualification, shot 198.7 in the final to emerge as the surprise gold medallist ahead of world number five Vladimir Issachenko of Kazakhstan and world number eight Rai.
Gurpreet, ranked 26th, fired 197.6 to win the silver ahead of Rai, who finished third with a total score of 177.6 at the Karni Singh Shooting Range. Rai had topped the qualification with 583. India won the team gold in the event with Rai (583), Gurpreet (576) and Omkar (575) aggregating 1734. The team silver went to Kazakhstan while Saudi Arabia was third.
There was a 1-2 finish for India in the 10m air pistol event for junior, with Sumedh Kumar (199.1 in the final) and Hemendra Singh Kushwah (195.2) winning the top two prizes on offer. Kushwah's effort was special as he was competing in his maiden international tournament. Mohamad Ahmed of Bangladesh bagged the bronze in the junior section.
