Press Trust of India
Kuwait City, Nov 6: Heena Sidhu made a grand return to form by winning the gold medal in the 10m air pistol women’s event at the 13th Asian Shooting Championships here Friday with a score of 198.20 points in the finals. She edged out Mongolian Gundegma Otreyad, who shot 198.00 while Jangmi Kim of Korea won the bronze with 176.20 points.
In the 10m air pistol junior women’s event, Shri Nivetha too won gold with a score of 195.80 in the finals. She edged out Shinemurun Nyamdorj of Mongolia (195.40) and Heesun Kim of Korea (174.40), who won the silver and bronze medals respectively. Shreya Gawande, Nivetha and Oshin Tawani also combined to win the team gold with a combined total of 1114 points. Mongoloia won the silver and Korea bagged the bronze.
There was another gold in the taking when the trio of Nayani Bharadwaj (374 points), Harshada Nithave (374 points) and Malaika Goel (365 points) also won the team title in the 10m air pistol for youth segment.
In the 25m pistol men’s junior event, India’s Shivam Shukla won gold shooting a score of 576. Korea’s Jungwoo Park (575) and Jaekyoon Lee (572) claimed the silver and bronze respectively.
Meanwhile in the junior skeet men’s competition, Angad Bajwa secured the individual gold. The team of Angad Bajwa (121), Anant Naruka (112) and Arjun Mann (114) shot 347 points to walk away with the team gold in this category.
