The Indian trio of Arjun Babuta, Rudrankksh Patil, and Kiran Jadhav clinched the team gold medal in men’s 10m Air Rifle on Thursday at the Asian Shooting Championships in Shymkent, Kazakhstan.
The three shooters accumulated a total score of 1892.5, beating China’s 1889.2 which was scored by the trio of Li Xianhao, Lu Dingke, and Wang Honghao. South Korea’s Park Ha-jun, Lee Jun-hwan, and Seo Jun-won, who combined to score 1885.7 and bag the bronze medal.
Mansi wins gold in junior women’s Skeet, Abhinav clinches gold in junior men’s 10m Air Rifle
Meanwhile, Mansi Raghuwanshi won the gold medal while compatriot Yashasvi Rathore claimed bronze in a 1-2 finish for India in the women’s junior skeet competition.
Mansi shot 53 in the final to emerge champion while Yashasvi fired 52 to take the second place ahead of Kazakhstan’s Lidiya Basharova (40).
In the junior men’s 10m Air Rifle event, Abhinav Shaw clinched the top prize, narrowly edging South Korea’s Lee Hyun-seo (250.3) with his score of 250.4. China’s Ma Sihan took the bronze medal with a score of 229.2.
There was more joy for the Indian contingent as the trio of Abhinav, Himanshu Talan, and Naraen Suresh took the team gold in the junior men’s 10m Air Rifle event. The Indian shooters broke the World and Asian Junior Records after notching up an accumulated score 1890.1, beating China’s Ma Sihan, Han Yinan, and Liu Junhao (1885.1) and South Korea’s Lee Hyun-seo, Kim Taegye-ong, and Lee Jong-hyuk.
In the junior men’s Skeet, Harmehar Singh Lally and Jyotiraditya Singh Sisodia won individual silver and bronze medals each with scores of 52 and 43 in the final respectively. Kazakhstan’s Artyom Sedelnikov won gold with 53 hits.
Later in the day, Harmehar and Ishaan Singh Libra combined with Atul Singh Rajawat to bag the junior men’s skeet team gold with a tally of 338, four ahead of the silver winning Kazakhs.
(With PTI inputs)
Published on Aug 21, 2025
