Rifle shooter Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and the blended compound archery staff of Aman Saini and Pragati gained gold medals for India on the FISU World University Games 2023 in Chengdu, the People’s Republic of China, on Sunday.

India gained a complete of seven medals on Sunday. While Indian shooters secured a gold, silver and bronze medal every, Indian archers bagged a gold, a silver and two bronze medals to take India’s total medals tally to 11.

Olympian Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, competing within the males’s 50m rifle 3 positions, scored a complete of 461.7 within the ultimate to take the highest podium. 

Gavin Barnick, a member of USA’s 2022 junior world championship gold medal-winning staff, got here second after accumulating 458.6 factors. Jiri Privratsky of the Czech Republic got here third with 448 factors.

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, who represented India on the Tokyo Olympics, made the lower for the eight-man ultimate after ending second within the qualifying spherical. Sartaj Singh Tiwana and Surya Pratap Singh got here nineteenth and twenty second, respectively, within the area of 34 and did not make the lower for the medal spherical. 

The Indian trio, nevertheless, mixed for a bronze medal within the males’s 50m rifle 3 place staff occasion by scoring 3502 factors – 5 lower than silver medal-winning Kazakhstan. China gained the gold medal with 3529 factors.

The Indian males’s 25m pistol fast hearth staff of Vijayveer Sidhu, Udhayveer Sidhu and Adarsh Singh claimed silver with a complete of 1729 factors. China scored 1736 to win gold whereas the Republic of Korea managed 1727 for bronze.

In the compound blended staff occasion, Indian archers Aman Saini and Pragati pipped Korea by some extent within the ultimate to win the gold medal. India’s rating of 157 factors out of a attainable 160 and matched the earlier meet report Korea created in 2015.

Chinese Taipei, nevertheless, rewrote the report by scoring 158 within the bronze medal match towards China and gained by three factors.

The Indian ladies’s compound staff of Avneet Kaur, Purvasha and Pragati made it to the gold medal match towards Korea however misplaced the competition 229-224 to accept silver. Chinese Taipei beat China 226-224 within the bronze medal match. 

The males’s compound staff of Aman Saini, Rishab Yadav and Sangamprit Singh Bisla gained the bronze medal after defeating Korea 229-226. China beat France 231-224 for gold.

Women’s recurve archers – Reeta Sawaiyan, Sangeeta and Tanisha Verma – additionally clinched the bronze medal with a 5-4 win over France. China defeated Korea by the identical scoreline within the gold medal match.

Unnati Sharma, Vikas Dalal and Nandini Vats, the three Indian judokas in motion on the day, nevertheless, dissatisfied and did not make the medal rounds of their respective class. Yamini Mourya’s bronze medal within the ladies’s 57kg on the opening day was India’s first medal in judo on the multi-sport meet.

On Saturday, Olympian Manu Bhaker clinched the ladies’s 10m air pistol gold and mixed with Yashaswini Singh Deswal and Abhidnya Patil to win the gold medal within the 10m air pistol ladies’s staff occasion as nicely. Elavenil Valarivan, added to India’s medals tally with a gold medal within the ladies’s 10m air rifle occasion. 

Close to 230 Indian athletes are competing on the Chengdu meet. The World University Games, which is held biennially, is without doubt one of the largest multi-sport occasions on the planet.