Vivaan, Esha win double gold as India dominate Asian shooting

Indian juniors extended ir dominance on day three of 14th Asian Shooting Championship (ASC) in Lusail, Qatar, picking up 10 more medals including five gold, accounting for 18 of 23 medals won by country so far.  Chinki Yav also kept India’s search of Tokyo 2020 quotas alive in Women’s 25m Pistol, placing fifth after round one of qualification. Chinki shot an exceptional 292 and will be looking to make final on Friday to try and get a realistic shot at clinching one of four available Tokyo berths. Rahi Sarbat has alrey secured or quota place for India in event in earlier competitions.

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India dominates Asian shooting

icing on cake on Thursday at Lusail Shooting complex, however, was 1-2 in Junior Men’s Trap competition where Vivaan Kapoor blasted his way to an individual gold with compatriot Bhowneesh Mendiratta following him whole day to clinch silver. pair h before that combined with Manavitya Singh Rathore to secure team gold in event as well. Vivaan, who picked up his second and third yellow metal of competition after winning Junior Trap Mixed team event on day one partnering Manisha Keer, continued his good form topping qualification with a solid 120 out of 125. Bhowneesh was second with 118 while Manavitya missed out on final finishing eighth with a score of 109. Vivaan n missed 5 birds in final to emerge triumphant with a score of 45 as Bhowneesh missed eight for silver. Li Siwei of China won bronze.

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Teenr Esha Singh also won a golden double on day, capturing both individual and team titles in 10m Air Pistol Women Junior competition. Hers was also a wire-to-wire performance, topping qualification with a 579 and n winning finals with a 242.2 finish. Teammate Priya Raghav was third in qualification with 574 and finished in same position in final closing out with a 217.6. Jeong Hyo of Korea won silver while Esha, Priya and Yuvika Tomar won team gold with a total of 1721, which eclipsed both Asian and World Junior records in category. Bhakti Bhaskar Khamkar won India’s fifth gold of day, besting 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women Junior event with a dominating 453.1 in final. China’s Yu Jianuan who won silver finished with 448.7, more than four behind Bhakti. Bhakti, Ayushi Podder and Nishchal also won team silver in event. So did trio of Niraj Kumar, Harshrajsinhji Gohil and Nitish Kumar in 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men Junior event. Niraj also picked up individual silver.

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