File photograph of pistol shooter Gurpreet Singh.
| Photo Credit: The Hindu
Veteran pistol shooter Gurpreet Singh got here up with a commanding efficiency for the second day in a row to assist India win the group gold within the 25m centre fire occasion on the penultimate day of the Asian Shooting Championships in Shymkent on Friday (August 29, 2025).
A day after he received the 25m customary pistol particular person gold and helped the nation to a top-podium end within the group class as properly, the 37-year-old Army shooter, together with Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu and Ankur Goel, secured one other large win in centre fire with an combination rating of 1733 factors, as India showcased its dominance in non-Olympic disciplines within the continental showpiece.
The Olympian, who got here shut to creating it to the rapid-fire pistol last on the 2016 Rio Games, had a mixed precision and fast spherical rating of 579, and along with Sandhu (583) and Ankur (571), the trio aggregated 1733 factors, which earned them the group gold.
Vietnam (1720) and Iran (1700) received the silver and bronze respectively.
Young Indian shooter Manini Kaushik clinched her maiden particular person worldwide medal, bagging a bronze in ladies’s 50m rifle prone occasion after guiding the group to silver earlier within the day.
The 24-year-old from Jaipur, who additionally competes in 50m rifle 3 positions, shot 617.8 to take the person bronze.
The South Korean duo of Hana Im 620.2 and Eunseo Lee 620.2 took the gold and silver respectively.
Manini had completed fifth within the competitors however since two of the shooters forward of her — South Korea’s Yelin Choi (620.1) and India’s Sift Kaur Samra (617.9) — have been competing within the ‘Ranking Points Only’ (RPO) class, the Jaipur shooter took the bronze.
RPO shooters compete just for worldwide rating factors and never for medals.
Manini had scores of 104.0, 103.8, 101.2. 103.3. 103.2. 102.3 within the six collection of 10 pictures every.
She additionally helped India to the group silver in 50m rifle prone, a non-Olympic self-discipline.
The trio of Manini (617.8), Surabhi Bharadwaj (614.4) and Vinod Vidarsa (613.8) aggregated 1846 factors for silver, with the gold being received by South Korea (1856.8 factors). Kazakhstan was third with 1828.2 factors.
India’s Prachi Gaikwad took the junior ladies’s 50m rifle prone silver with a rating of 616.6. The gold was received by South Korea’s Sehee Oh (618.6), whereas the bronze went to Kazakhstan’s Sofya Malkina (616.3).
The trio of Prachi (616.6), Anushka Thokur (607.6) and Tejal Nathawat (599.2) took the group bronze with an combination of 1823.4. South Korea, with a complete of 1844, took the gold, whereas Kazakhstan (1830.1) bagged the silver.
Published – August 29, 2025 03:43 pm IST
