NEW DELHI: The Men’s Skeet team comprising Anant Jeet Singh Naruka, Gurjoat Khangura, and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa struck gold on Sunday when their combined total of 358 was enough to pip team Korea by a point at the 15th Asian Shooting Championship (ASC), going on in Changwon, Korea.
Kazakhstan was third. The first two named also made the individual final, where Anant Jeet was fourth and Gurjoat 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 on the day. 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, Sarabjot and Surbhi 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 India’s 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.
Anant Jeet, who recently won silver at the Hangzhou Asiad, shot 33 in the six-man Men’s Skeet final to finish fourth. Qatari Rashid Saleh Al-Athba won gold with 53 hits out of 60.
While he already had won a Paris quota in earlier competitions, second placed Kim Minsu of Korea and Chinese Taipei’s bronze winner Lee Meng Yuan, took the other two, as Anant Jeet fell short, shooting 33 out of the first 40 targets to bow out in fourth. Gurjoat had earlier become the first of the top six to bow out with 15 hits out of the first 20 targets. IANS
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