Sift Kaur Samra clinched the individual gold medal in the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions event at the 16th Asian Shooting Championships on Tuesday.
Sift scored 459.2 to take the top spot. She was followed by Yujie Yang of China (458.8) and Japan’s Misaki Nobata (448.2).
Ashi Chouksey, the other Indian in the individual eight-shooter final, finished seventh with a score of 402.8.
Samra and Ashi had finished the qualification round in second and fifth place, respectively, but entered the final as first and fourth, as another Indian, Shriyanka Sadandi, who had topped the qualification round, was competing in the ‘Ranking Points Only’ (RPO) category. RPO shooters cannot compete for medals.
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Published on Aug 26, 2025
