India's top rifle shooters continued their impressive showing at the ongoing national rifle/pistol selection trials for Group A shooters at the MP State Shooting Academy ranges here, after Paris quota holder Arjun Babuta won back-to-back trials and triple Asian Games medallist Ashi Chouksey
Tamil Nadu's R. Narmada Nithin won the women's 10m air rifle T4 trials, even as Uttar Pradesh's Neha overcame two seasoned opponents to take the women's 25m pistol T3 title and Olympian and local star Aishwary Tomar, scored a facile win in the men's 50m rifle 3 positions (3P) T4 match, on da
Sift Kaur Samra who has already bagged a Paris Olympic quota for India in the 50m Rifle 3-position, won an individual bronze medal in her pet event at the Kahilipara Shooting Range and also teamed up with Ashi Chouksey, who also won the individual gold, and Vanshika Sahil to clinch the team
The Punjab shooter pipped her statemate Sift Kaur Samra for the top spot on the podium with a total of 458.9 against Samra's 458.2. Madhya Pradesh's Ashi Chouksey finished with the bronze medal with a cumulative total of 445.5.
Having won silver medal in women’s 50m rifle 3P team shooting event at the Asian Games here on Wednesday, shooter Ashi Chouksey who won two more medals, said it is the best feeling when the national flag goes up
Shooter Anant Jeet Singh added another medal to India's tally at the Asian Games, securing a silver medal in the men's skeet individual final on Wednesday
With a total of 34 points, she secured a silver medal. The gold medal went to China's Rui Liu who had 38 points. The bronze medal was bagged by South Korea's Jiin Yaang, who had 29 points.
With the score of 469.6 points, Sift not only topped the charts to secure a gold, but also broke the world record, Asian record and the Asian Games record. The world record was held by Great Britain, the Asian record was held by China and the Asian Games record was previously held by Mongoli