Asian Games 2023: Two teenaged dreamy-eyed shooters, Palak Gulia and Esha Singh, set ablaze the capturing vary by powering to a gold-silver end in 10m air pistol occasion for India on the Asian Games. In probably the most trailblazing efforts seen by Indian shooters, the duo challenged one another for the highest podium end till 17-year-old Palak clinched the gold medal and Esha the silver to swell the nation’s tally within the sport to 17 — six of them gold. Pakistan’s Talat Kishmala settled for a bronze after giving a troublesome struggle to Esha. This is the primary main particular person medal for Palak in a global competitors after she got here on the capturing scene simply final yr. She shot 242.1 within the finals for an Asian Games file. Esha, who had gained the person silver in 25m pistol on Wednesday and was a part of the triumvirate that gained the 10m air pistol staff silver together with Palak and Divya TS earlier on Friday, settled for silver, scoring 239.7. Medals continued to rain for India within the capturing area with the nation clinching a gold in males’s 50m rifle three-positions staff occasion with a world file, whereas the Esha Singh-led ladies’s 10m air pistol trio bagged a silver. The males’s 50m rifle 3-positions staff, comprising the younger trio of Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (591), Swapnil Kusale (591) and Akhil Sheoran (587), overcame the Chinese problem with ease with a rating of 1769 to take the highest podium end, whereas the hosts had been a transparent six factors adrift with 1763 factors.Read Less

THE TIMES OF INDIA | Sep 29, 2023, 13:35:26 IST