The podium winners of the Junior Women’s Skeet Team event, posing for a photograph at the Losail Shooting Range yesterday. Team Qatar won the bronze medal while China finished on top. India won the silver. BOTTOM: Shooters in action. Picture: Ebrahim Kutt
North Korea’s Kim Song Guk won gold in the men’s 10m air pistol event at the 14th Asian Shooting Championships while India’s Saurabh Chaudhary claimed the silver medal at the Losail Shooting Range yesterday.
India continue to dominate at the championships as 17-year-old Chaudhary, the World Cup and the Asian Games gold-medallist, shot 244.5 to finish second on the podium behind North Korea’s Kim Song Guk, who won the top prize with a world record 246.5. Iran’s Foroughi Javed bagged the bronze with a score of 221.8.
With 583, both Chaudhary and Abhishek Verma had qualified for the final in seventh and sixth place, respectively. However, Verma had to be satisfied with a fifth-place finish in the eight-man final, having managed 181.5.
Both Chaudhary and Verma had already secured their Olympic quotas in the earlier competitions.
The air pistol quotas from this competition went to Iran, North Korea and Pakistan as India and China had already secured the maximum two quotas each.
India has picked up six Olympic quotas from the 10-day championship which ends tomorrow and have now have in total 15 Olympic quotas for next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Hosts Qatar have so far won Olympic quota at the current championships, which they got in men’s trap individual event.
In the junior mixed air rifle event, India’s Shreya Agrawal and Dhanush Srikanth won the gold, while the first qualification toppers, Khushi Saini and Hriday Hazarika finished fifth, eventually.
In junior men’s skeet, India’s Gurnihal Singh Garcha won the silver, and the team gold with Abhay Singh Sekhon and Ayush Rudraraju.
India’s Areeba Khan, Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Karttiki Shaktawat won the team silver behind China in junior women’s skeet.
Action in Doha will continue today. Gold medals will be decided in the men’s 50m pistol, the skeet mixed team and the men’s and women’s running target.
14th Asian Shooting Championships: Yesterday’s results:
Men:
10m Air Pistol: 1. Kim Song Guk (PRK) 246.5 WR (584); 2. Saurabh Chaudhary (IND) 244.5 (583); 3. Javad Foroughi (IRI) 221.8 (585)
Team: 1. China 1745; 2. Korea 1744; 3. India 1740.
Junior men:
10m air pistol: 1. Kim Woojong (KOR) 241.4 (574); 2. Wang Zhehao (CHN) 239.5 (576); 3. Li Wei Hua Chin (TPE) 218.1 (581)
Team: 1. Korea 1711; 2. China 1708; 3. India 1704.
Skeet: 1. Eduard Yechshenko (KAZ) 54 (116); 2. Gurnihal Singh Garcha 50 (114); 3. Wu Liangliang (Chn) 42 (113)
Team: 1. India 343; 2. China 334; 3. Kuwait 318.
Junior women:
Skeet: 1. Song Zhengyi (Chn) 53 (113)8; 2. Sun Yashu (Chn) 52 (113)7; 3. Zoya Kravchenko (Kaz) 36 (118); 5. Areeba Khan 24 (104); 6. Parinaaz Dhaliwal 14 (107); 7. Karttiki Singh Shaktawat 98.
Team: 1. China 339; 2. India 309; 3. Qatar 250.
Air rifle mixed team juniors: 1. India (Shreya Agrawal, Dhanush Srikanth) 16 (417.1; 624.3); 2. China 14 (421.5; 628.0); 3. Iran 17 (414.3; 626.5); 4. China-A 11 (416.7; 626.3); 5. India (Khushi Saini, Hriday Hazarika) 412.7 (630.3).
Today’s programme
08:00 - Skeet Mixed Team
09:00 - 10m Running Target Mixed Rum Men
09:00 - 10m Running Target Mixed Rum Women
09:00 - 10m Running Target Mixed Rum Men Junior
09:00 - 10mRunning Target Mixed Rum Women Junior
09:00 - 25m Pistol Women Junior Rapid Stage
09:00 - 50m Pistol Men
10:30 - 10m Air Rifle Men Junior
I 0:30 - 10m Air Rifle Women Junior
10:45 - 25m Pistol Women Junior Finals
11:15 - 50m Pistol Men Junior
12:45 - 1Om Air Rifle Women Junior Finals
13:30 - Skeet Mixed Team Finals
14:00 - 1Om Air Rifle Men Junior Finals
