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Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar wins rifle 3P gold
The Hindu
India won 21 gold, 21 silver and 13 bronze medals at the 15th Asian Shooting Championship in Changwon, Korea. Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar won gold in rifle 3-position event with 0.8 point margin over China's Tian Jiaming. India also won both the mixed trap gold medals with Manisha Keer and Prithviraj Tondaiman beating Korea 141-136, and Aadya Tripathi and Shardul Vihan with a total of 131. China topped the medals table with 33 gold, 21 silver and 22 bronze.
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar won the gold in rifle 3-position event with a 0.8 point margin over Tian Jiaming of China in the 15th Asian shooting championship in Changwon, Korea, on Wednesday.
There was no question of an Olympic quota for India in the event, as Swapnil Kusale and Akhil Sheoran had already won the maximum possible two Olympic quota in the event for the country in the World Championships.
The Indian team was pushed to the silver by China which was dominant with a world record of 1777 points, 13 better than India.
India claimed both the mixed trap gold medals. Manisha Keer and Prithviraj Tondaiman won by beating Korea 141-136, while the junior mixed trap gold was claimed by Aadya Tripathi and Shardul Vihan with a total of 131.
The other Indian team of Bhavya Tripathi and Bakhtyaruddin Malek shot 130, but was ineligible to be among the medals.
China topped the medals table with 33 gold, 21 silver and 22 bronze. India was second with 21 gold, 21 silver and 13 bronze. Host Korea won 16 gold, 22 silver and 19 bronze.
The results:
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Asian Games champion Avinash Sable opened his season in the 3000m steeple chase with a silver in the Portland Track Festival, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze event, in Oregon on Saturday. He clocked 8:21.85s. Asian champion Parul Chaudhary took the bronze in the women’s 3000m steeple chase in a season-best 9:31.38s. Former Asian bronze medallist Sanjivani Jadhav struck gold in the women’s 10,000m in 32:22.77s, a time which was a second off her personal best, while Seema was sixth in 32:55.91s.