Indian shooters claim silver in
men's trap team event
India's shooters scooped up another silver medal to take their tally to two but pistol king Japsal
Rana returned with a disappointing performance to further
diminish India's medal prospects in the shooting event of the
14th Asian Games in Busan on Thursday.
The trio of Manavjit Singh, Mansher Singh and Anwer
Sultan brought some cheer by securing the
silver medal in the men's trap team event with a total of 340 points, on a day which saw below par performances by the Indian shooters at the Changwon International shooting range.
Though they failed to upset the applecart of the strong
Chinese shooters, the Indian trio displayed superb skill and
concentration to make it to the medal podium.
The coveted gold medal was expectedly claimed by the
Chinese team, comprising Yongiie Zhang, Hui Li and Lixin Huang, which finished with 353 points. The Philipines team of Jethro Dionisio, Eric Ang and Jaime Recio took the bronze
medal with a total of 331 points.
But Jaspal Rana, one of the country's main medal hopes,
put up a rather lacklustre display in the men's 10 metres air
pistol event finishing much too low on the final position list
on day which saw the strong Chinese shooters rule the roost
again.
In the team event, the Indian quartet of Rana, Samaresh
Jung and Ved Prakash had to be content with the eighth
position finishing with a total of 1714 points falling well
short of expectations.
Mansher Singh and Manavjit Singh also did reasonably well
in the men's trap individual event finishing in the fourth and
fifth position respectively. While Mansher managed 137 points
his partner Manavjit had one point less than him.
The gold medal in the trap individual event was claimed
by China's Hui Li who logged 143 points while compatriot
Yongiie Zhang (142) and Jethro Dionisio (139) took the silver
and bronze medals respectively.
In the women's 10 m air pistol team event, the Indian
trio of Shweta Choudhury, Shilpi Singh and Sheila Kanungo
took the sixth position with an aggregate of 1198 and could
have done slightly better had Kanungo been a little more
consistent.
The Chinese trio of Luna Tao, Jie Ren and Ying Chen
secured the gold medal in the women's 10 m air pistol event
with a new Asian Games record of 1156 points while the
Kazakhstan and South Korean teams took the silver and bronze
medals respectively.
On Wednesday, India's medal hunt at the Games gathered momentum with the women's shooting team winning a silver in the 10 metres Air Rifle event.
The Indian team, comprising Suma Shirur, Anjali Bhagwat and Deepali Deshpande, bettered the previous Asian record but still had to be content with a silver in the event, which was won by the Chinese team with a new world record.