Asian Shooting C'ships: Men's skeet team wins gold, mixed pistol team silver

Indian shooters performed well in the team events but Anant Jeet Singh Naruka missed an Olympic quota at the Asian Shooting Championships in Changwon, Korea on Wednesday.

The Men’s Skeet team comprising Anant Jeet Singh Naruka, Gurjoat Khangura, and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, struck gold when their combined total of 358 was enough to pip team Korea by a point.

Anant Jeet, who recently won silver at the Hangzhou Asiad, shot 33 in the six-man Men’s Skeet final to finish fourth and he missed an Olympic quota while Gurjoat finished sixth.

Sarabjot Singh and Surbhi Rao also won a silver for India on the day. They shot a combined 581 in qualification, the same score shot by four other teams including two Chinese pairs who took the top two positions with greater accuracy.

The Indians were third, but as only one team from a country could make the final, Sarabjot and Surbhi were drawn to play Li Xue and Liu Jinyao for gold. The Chinese prevailed 16-4 however and the Indians took home silver.

In the junior events, India’s Shubham Bisla and Sainyam won bronze in the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team competition, overcoming Kazakhstan’s Malika Seil and Kiril Tsukanov 16-10 in the first bronze medal match.

The women's skeet shooters had a tough outing with Ganemat Sekhon finishing best among the four on show. She shot 108 to end 15th overall. Karttiki Singh Shaktawat and Parinaaz Dhaliwal shot 107 each to end in 17th and 18th positions while Darshna Rathore was 19th with a score of 106. Ganemat, Parinaaz, and Darshna also finished fourth in the team competition with an overall score of 321.

India now has six medals from the 15th ASC including two gold, two silver, and two bronze medals each. The squad has also won one Paris quota from the championship so far.