Asian Championship, Rifle and Pistol: World champion Samrat Rana wins 10m air pistol bronze, India men win team silver
Samrat Rana, the current 10m air pistol world champion, won the bronze medal at the ongoing Asian Championship for rifle and pistol events at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi on Wednesday.
The 21-year-old marksman finished with a score of 220.3 to finish behind Uzbekistan’s Vladimir Svechnikov (242.0) and Valeriy Rakhimzhan (241.0) of Kazakhstan. Sharvan Kumar, the other Indian in the final, finished just outside the medals, with 198.6.
Sharvan, Samrat, and Varun Tomar, however, collectively got the Indian men’s team a silver medal with an aggregate score of 1732. Uzbekistan, comprising Svechnikov, Muhammad Kamalov, and Ilkhombek Obijonov, finished with an identical score but took home the gold medal by virtue of having hit six more inner-10s than the host. Kazakhstan won bronze.
In the individual qualification round, Subhash Sihag’s 585 was the best Indian score, but he wasn’t one of the finalists because the shooter was competing for RPO (Ranking Points Only). Samrat, fourth, had scored 581, while Sharvan, eighth, had accumulated 578. Varun, 15th, registered 573.
The women’s qualification saw a similar situation unfold with Sainyam’s 584 at the pole position. However, being an RPO athlete, she had to see the trio of Suruchi Singh (576, fourth), Manu Bhaker (575-20x, fifth), and Esha Singh (575-18x, sixth) qualify.
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Published on Feb 04, 2026