Saurabh Chaudhary clinches silver in Asian Shooting Championship

Asian Games and Youth Olympics champion Saurabh Chaudhary shot a world record score in finals on Monday only to be eclipsed by rth Korean Kim Song Guk by 0.2 points as Indian teen champion settled for a silver in men’s 10m air pistol event at ongoing 14th Asian Shooting Championship in Qatar on Monday.

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Narrow miss

Saurabh and fellow Tokyo 2020 quota holder in event Abhishek Verma, who also reached finals finishing fifth, h earlier secured team bronze in partnership with Sharvan Kumar. troika totaled 1740 in qualifying, to be behind China (gold-1745) and Korea (silver-1744). That did t stop India’s gold hunt though as Shreya Agrawal and Dhanush Srikanth in 10m Air Rifle mixed team junior competition and Gurnihal Garcha, Abhay Singh Sekhon and Ayush Rudraraju in Men’s Skeet Junior team section, landed brightest metal to d to India’s bulging tally in competition.

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Shreya and Dhanush beat ir Chinese opponents 16-14 in gold medal match after coming up through two rounds of qualifying. Gurnihal Garcha also won individual silver with a score of 50 in finals. Abhay Sekhon who h topped qualification with a solid 120, was second Indian in final but finished fourth, narrowly missing out on a medal.

In all, India picked up eight more medals on day.

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