Lagatar24 Desk
Hangzhou, Sep 29: In the women’s individual final of the 10m air pistol event on Friday, 17-year-old Palak won a gold medal and 18-year-old Esha Singh a silver, continuing the Indian team’s historically successful shooting streak at the present Asian Games in Hangzhou.
Palak not only won the gold medal but also broke China’s 2018 record for her category at the Asian Games with a personal score of 242.1 points.
With 239.7 points and her fourth medal in these games, Esha won the silver, extending her remarkable shooting streak in Hangzhou.
With this, India’s total number of shooting medals in Hangzhou increased to 17.
At the current Asian Games, India has won 30 medals overall, including 8 gold, 11 silver and 11 bronze.
At the 50 m rifle men’s 3P competition earlier on Friday; the men’s trio of Swapnil Kusal, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, and Akhil Sheoran won gold.
Team India won the gold medal with a total of 1769 points. South Korea received the bronze medal, while China took home the silver with 1763 points. With their result, India also surpassed the 1761-point mark held by the United States since the previous year.
Esha Singh, Palak and Divya Subbaraju, a shooting trio, earlier extended their nation’s unbreakable streak in shooting by winning a silver medal in the women’s 10 m air rifle pistol team final at the Asian Games on Friday.
India finished in second place with 1731 points, barely five points behind China (1736 points), who took home the gold. With 1723 points, Chinese Taipei won the bronze medal.
