Manu-Saurabh win mixed event gold with junior world record

Kuwait City, November 9 

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Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary shattered the junior world record on their way to winning the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team gold in the 11th Asian Airgun Championships. 

On the concluding day of the tournament, the Indians got the better of the Chinese pairing of Wang Xiaoyu and Hong Shuqi in the final. The Indian junior shooting squad thus ended the championship with a tally of 11 medals, including four gold. Manu and Saurabh finished with a score of 485.4 in the final, well ahead of the Chinese pair, who managed 477.9. A second Chinese team won the bronze while India’s second pair in the final, Abhidnya Patil and Anmol Jain, finished fourth.

In the qualifying rounds, the pair of Manu and Saurabh were second among the five teams with a combined score of 762 out of 800. They logged the same score as the table-topping Chinese pair of Wang and Hong but lost out on the top position due to fewer inner 10s. Abhidnya and Anmol were third in qualifying with a total score of 760. This was Saurabh’s third gold medal in two days, after his wins in the team and individual 10m Air Pistol events on Thursday. — PTI

11th Asian Airgun Championships medallists

• S Chaudhary, Gold (team and individual), 10M Air Pistol 
• M Bhaker & S Chaudhary, Gold, 10M Air Pistol mixed team
• Angad Bajwa, Gold, Skeet 
• E Valarivan & H Hazarika, Gold, Junior Mixed 10M Air Rifle 
• M Bhaker, Silver, 10M Air Pistol team event
• Divyansh S Panwar, Silver, Junior Men’s 10M Air Rifle
• H Hazarika, A Babuta, DS Panwar, Silver, 10M Air Rifle Team 
• E Valarivan, M Ghosh,S Aggarwal, Team Silver, Jr Women 10M Air Rifle 
• E Valarivan, Bronze, Junior Women 10M Air Rifle 
• M Ghosh & A Babuta, Bronze, 10M Rifle mixed team