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Rifle shooter Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar earned his third gold medal in two days, breaking the World Record, while compound archers Avneet Kaur and Sangampreet Singh Bisla won their second as India grabbed six medals, three of which were gold, at the 31st FISU World University Games on Monday.
India won the Men’s 10m Air Rifle Team event with 1894.7 points, 7.3 points more than the previous world record established by China in 2018. However, because the FISU World University Games shooting scores are not included in the ISSF, the regulatory organization for Olympic shooting sports, it does not count as a new world record, according to Xinhua.
The six medals on Monday brought India’s total in the Chengdu Universiade to 17 — 9 gold, 3 silver, and 5 bronze — as they stayed fourth overall behind hosts China (30), South Korea (28) and Japan (25).
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar was India’s star of the day, winning two gold medals in the Men’s 10m Air Rifle and Men’s 10m Air Rifle Team events.
Tomar finished first in the Men’s 10m Air Rifle event with 252.6 points, followed by compatriot Divyansh Singh Panwar, who grabbed silver with 251.0 points, as India achieved a 1-2 result in the event. Buhan Song of China took bronze with a score of 229.0.
The qualifying stage of the Men’s 10m Air Rifle event was a wonderful event for India, as three of them qualified for the finals, with Arjun Babuta coming second with 632.3, trailing Jiri Privratsky of the Czech Republic, who won with 632.6. Tomar finished third with 631.7 points, and Divyansh Panwar finished fourth with 630.7 points.
Arjun Babuta was the first to exit the final, but Tomar and Panwar shot magnificently to finish one-two and take gold and silver, respectively.
India won two gold medals in archery, with Sangampreet Singh Bisla taking gold in the Compound Men’s Individual event and Aman Saini taking bronze.
Avneet Kaur won gold in the Women’s Compound Individual event, beating off Alyssa Grace Sturvill of the United States, and Cho Sua of South Korea claimed bronze.
Bisla overcame South African Christian Beyers de Klerk after defeating compatriot Aman Saini in a tiebreak shootout in the semifinals after they deadlocked at 147. Bisla won the final 149-147 over de Klerk, who hit a bullseye while Saini earned ten. In the final, he shot 30, 29, 30, 30, 30 as opposed to 30, 30, 30, 28, and 29.
Saini defeated France’s Victor Bouleau 148-146 to win the bronze medal.
Source:IANS
