Raiza Dhillon and Gurjoat Singh Khangura gained the bronze medal within the combined skeet staff occasion as India signed off the Asian Shotgun Championships 2024 in Kuwait City with one gold, three silvers and 4 bronze medals on Sunday.

The Indian capturing pair defeated Kuwait’s Abdullah Al-Rashidi and Eman Al-Shamaa 41-39 within the bronze medal match. The People’s Republic of China defeated Kazakhstan 45-43 for the gold medal whereas the second bronze medal was gained by Bahrain, who defeated Qatar 39-38.

In the qualification spherical, India completed seventh with a rating of 138 to make the ultimate. Though solely the highest six make the medal matches, Kazakhstan had two groups within the high six and just one staff from the nation progressed to the medal spherical. 

The Asian Shotgun Championships have been held from January 14 to 21. The occasion additionally doubled because the qualifying occasion for the Paris 2024 Olympics for Indian shooters in lure and skeet occasions.

Indian shooters gained a complete of eight medals in Kuwait and obtained two Olympic quotas for the nation. 

Anantjeet Singh Naruka, an Asian Games silver medallist, and Raiza Dhillon obtained Paris 2024 Olympic quotas for India with silver medals within the males’s and girls’s skeet occasions, respectively. These have been India’s first quotas within the males’s and girls’s skeet occasions for the Paris Olympics, taking India’s tally of Olympic quotas in capturing for the upcoming Olympics to 19.

Maheshwari Chauhan gained the bronze medal in ladies’s skeet whereas Lakshay Sheoran claimed the bronze medal in males’s lure. However, they weren’t in a position to safe Olympic quotas for India.

The ladies’s skeet staff gained India’s solely gold medal on the Asian Shotgun Championships 2024. The Asian Championships for rifle and pistol shooters have been held in Jakarta earlier this month. India gained 26 medals and 4 Olympic quotas from that occasion.

Asian Shotgun Championships 2024: Indian medal winners

• Ganemat Sekhon, Maheshwari Chauhan and Raiza Dhillon (ladies’s skeet staff) – gold medal
• Anantjeet Singh Naruka (males’s skeet) – silver medal
• Raiza Dhillon (ladies’s skeet) – silver medal
• Manisha Keer, Shreyasi Singh and Bhavya Tripathi (ladies’s lure staff) – silver medal
• Maheshwari Chauhan (ladies’s skeet) – bronze medal 
• Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Munek Battula and Gurjoat Khangura (males’s skeet staff) – bronze medal
• Gurjoat Singh Khangura and Raiza Dhillon (combined skeet staff) – bronze medal
• Lakshay Sheoran (males’s lure) – bronze medal