INDIAN shooters set the range ablaze with superb performance onWednesday as they won 7 medals, including two gold in a single day at the Asian Games. Sift Kaur Samra (Gold - Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions), Women’s 25m Pistol Team (Gold - Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh, Rhythm Sangwan), Esha Singh (Silver - Women’s 25m Pistol Individual), Anantjeet Singh Naruka (Silver - Men’s Skeet Individual), Women’s 25m Rifle 3 Positions Team (Silver - Ashi Chouksey, Manini Kaushik and Sift Kaur Samra), Ashi Chouksey (Bronze - Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions) and Men’s Skeet Team (Bronze - Angad, Gurjoat and Anant Jeet) were the medal winners of the day. Markswoman Samra shot a world and Games record score of 469.6 to claim the yellow mettle while Chouksey managed 451.9 to bag the third position in the eight-women final.

 

Manu, Esha and Rhythm totalled 1759 to finish on top of the podium inWomen’s 25m Pistol Team event. Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, Gurjoat Khangura and Anant Jeet Singh Naruka shot a total of 355 to settle for the third position as India continued their dominance at the range. SailorVishnu Sarvanan won a bronze, the country’s firstever medal in the men’s dinghy ILCA-7 event. Sarvanan finished with a net score of 34 points to miss the silver medal by just one point in the gruelling 11-race competition.