Press Trust of India
Kuwait City, Nov 4: Ace shooter Jitu Rai won India’s first senior medal at the 13th Asian Shooting Championship, finishing second behind Korea’s Park Dae Hun in the finals of the men’s 50m pistol here Wednesday.
Park shot a finals World and Asian record score of 199.20 points to clinch the gold medal. Jitu finished with a score of 189.50 points, in the process beating his long-time rivals Jin Jongoh of Korea and Vladimir Issachenko of Kazakhstan. Jitu qualified for the finals in seventh position with a score of 555 points. Prakash Nanjappa finished 11th in qualifying with a score of 553, while Omkar Singh finished 24th with 545.
In the 10m air rifle junior men’s event, India’s Akhil Sheoran won a silver medal and Prashant won a bronze respectively. Xuechao Qian of China won the gold in the event. Earlier Akhil teamed up with Prashant and Pratik Bose to win the team silver in the event.
N Gayathri won the day’s fifth medal for India when she bagged the silver in the junior women’s 50m rifle prone event with a score of 614.60 points. The gold went to Iran’s Fatemeh Karamzadeh who finished with 617.30 points. Another Iranian Najmeh Khidmati won the bronze in the event.