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Anjali, Rathore bag gold
Hyderabad, Oct 29: Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Anjali Bhagwat won gold medals as India put up a sterling show, picking up two of the three golds at stake on the fourth day of the shooting competition in the Afro-Asian Games here today.
Hyderabad, Oct 29: Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and
Anjali Bhagwat won gold medals as India put up a sterling
show, picking up two of the three golds at stake on the fourth
day of the shooting competition in the Afro-Asian Games here
today.
Rathore bagged the gold with a total of 174 points in the
men's double trap while Ranjan Sondhi clinched the silver with
a tally of 167 behind him.
Bhagwat, who won a silver in women's 10m air rifle event yesterday, claimed her maiden the gold in the games in 50m rifle 3-position event with a total of 675.5 points. Kuheli Ganguly gave India the bronze in the same event with a tally of 669.7.
India now has three golds, six silver and two bronze from the shooting range.
Bhagwat, who was in the second spot after the qualifying round due to a weak kneeling round, found her rhythm in the final as she scored 98.5 points to win the gold. The silver went to Olga Dovgun of Kazakhstan, who had fired a perfect 600 in the 50m prone competition on Monday.
Meanwhile, Rathore, who became the first Indian to win a bronze medal in World Championship's double trap event in 41 years last month, was confident personified on his way to the golden haul.
Rathore led the field of six, including three Indians, throughout the event and went on to take the gold with a margin of seven points. M Nicholson of Zimbabwe won the bronze medal.
Bureau Report
Bhagwat, who won a silver in women's 10m air rifle event yesterday, claimed her maiden the gold in the games in 50m rifle 3-position event with a total of 675.5 points. Kuheli Ganguly gave India the bronze in the same event with a tally of 669.7.
India now has three golds, six silver and two bronze from the shooting range.
Bhagwat, who was in the second spot after the qualifying round due to a weak kneeling round, found her rhythm in the final as she scored 98.5 points to win the gold. The silver went to Olga Dovgun of Kazakhstan, who had fired a perfect 600 in the 50m prone competition on Monday.
Meanwhile, Rathore, who became the first Indian to win a bronze medal in World Championship's double trap event in 41 years last month, was confident personified on his way to the golden haul.
Rathore led the field of six, including three Indians, throughout the event and went on to take the gold with a margin of seven points. M Nicholson of Zimbabwe won the bronze medal.
Bureau Report