India’s gold rush continues in Jakarta as Yogesh wins double
Indian shooters’ gold rush continued in the Asia Olympic Qualifiers with Yogesh Singh winning the top prize in individual as well as team event of the men’s 25m centre fire pistol competition here on Monday.
Yogesh claimed the individual gold medal after shooting 573, finishing ahead of silver winner Muad Al Balushi of Oman (570) and Indonesia’s Anang Yulianto (567).
The other two Indian participants in the event, Pankaj Yadav (567) and Akshay Jain (564), ended fourth and sixth, respectively.
The Indian trio aggregated 1704 to bag the team gold ahead of shooters from Oman and Indonesia.
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Shreyasi finishes fifth in women’s trap final
In the qualifiers for shotgun in Kuwait City, Commonwealth Games gold medallist Shreyasi Singh had to be content with a fifth-place finish in the final of women’s trap, having managed 19 points.
Shreyasi had qualified for the final in fourth position with a total of 115 across five rounds.
Taipei’s Wan-Yu Liu (44) won the gold medal in women’s trap, and China’s Xinqiu Zhang (39) settled for silver. Kazakhstan’s Mariya Dmitriyenko (30) ended with bronze.
The Indian trio of Shreyasi, Manisha Keer and Bhavya Tripathi, however, won the silver medal in the women’s trap team event with a total of 328, finishing behind China and ahead of Kazakhstan.
Lakshay Sheoran misses by a whisker
Asian Games silver medallist Lakshay Sheoran won bronze in men’s trap but missed one of the two available Paris 2024 Olympics quota places by a whisker.
Sheoran finished third despite leading the 50-shot final for most of it. 15-year-old Iranian Mohammad Beyranvand struck gold and the first quota place, getting the better of silver winning Chinese Guo Yuhaoa, the latter missing his second shoot-off shot after both had tied at 40 hits.
Guo also collected the second quota place.
Earlier in the day, Sheoran shot well to return two rounds of 24 each to total 119 after five 25-shot qualification rounds, to claim the fourth spot in the 57-strong field.
The top six go through and the Indian had to finish among the top two as all finalists were eligible for quota places.
He started brilliantly to go into sole lead after 25 shots, nailing 22 of the targets. The eighth series was his undoing as he missed three and both Beyranvand and Guo beat him by one target. Sheoran bowed out with 33 hits.