Indian men shooters finish with bronze

Indian men shooters finish with bronze
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Indian Men Shooters Finish With Bronze. Indian men settled for a bronze medal after narrowly missing the silver in the 10m air pistol event at the Ongnyeon shooting range, continuing their good run in the 17th Asian Games, in Incheon on Sunday.

Incheon: Indian men settled for a bronze medal after narrowly missing the silver in the 10m air pistol event at the Ongnyeon shooting range, continuing their good run in the 17th Asian Games, in Incheon on Sunday.

Their latest shooting star Jitu Rai entered the eight-man final as the second best qualifier but could not stand on the podium after finishing fifth, a day after clinching the 50m gold.

Rai’s precise shooting, that helped him garner 585 points and qualify with a point behind Kazakhstan’s Rashid Yunusmetov, backed up by Samaresh Jung’s 580 (who finished 9th) and Prakash Nanjappa’s 578 (14th), albeit with an injured leg, helped India garner 1743 points, the same as second placed China, for the bronze.

India and China were level on points and the silver was decided by the number of Xs (bulls eye) in the tens in which the latter tallied one more - 65 to India’s 64.

The gold was won by hosts South Korea with a combined tally of 1744, leading Samaresh to later say “why only silver, we narrowly missed the gold too”.

Rai’s sequence of hits at the target was 97, 99, 95, 98, 97 and 99. Burly Samaresh, came up with 97, 97, 97, 96, 96 and 98 to finish one slot outside the finals qualification.

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