12TH Asian Shooting Championship Doha

RAJ KUMARI WINS INDIVIDUAL GOLD MEDAL IN 50M PRONE

Raj Kumari Wins individual Gold medal in 50M Rifle Prone Women match with excellent score of 594/600. This is a non Olympic event and involved no Quota place. The team consisting of Raj Kumari (594), Tejaswini Sawant (582) and Lajja Gouswami (579) wins the Bronze medal in team event.

In the Junior Air Pistol women event, team of Albha Oberoi (372), Diksha Rajput (369) and Naman Sharma (368) wins the Bronze Medal. Air Pistol Women teams wins Gold Medal & Annuraj wins individual Bronze Medal.Air Pistol Women teams wins Gold Medal & Annuraj wins individual Bronze Medal.

Indian shooters again missed the Quota Place despite showing excellent performance in Air Pistol Women event. It was for the first time during this Championship that all the three shooters were in the Finals but as the luck was not favoring them and they missed the Quota Place. Heena Sindhu was at 3^rd position after the 9^th shot but her bad last shot put her at 5^th position and lost the Quota Place. She lost the Quota with a small margin of 0.9 only. Shweta Chaudhary was also doing exteremly well in the Finals but her 7^th shot, which was 7.7 spoiled her chances of Quota Place. The final scores of Heena Sidhu & Shweta Chaudhary were 381+99.2 and 383+96.6 and stood 5^th and 6^th respectively.

Annuraj Singh, who was already a Quota holder in this event got bronze medal with a score of 383+98.2. The team of Annuraj Singh (383), Shweta Chaudhary (383) and Heena Sidhu (381) wins the Gold Medal in Team event.

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