Rashmika Sahgal adds gold to India's tally in the junior competition.
India's Manu Bhaker won the bronze medal in 10m Air Pistol event at the Asian Shooting Championships in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday.
Manu finished with 219.7 points in the final, behind Jiin Yang (241.6) of South Korea and China’s Qianke Ma (243.2).
Esha Singh, who participating in the event for ranking points only, was ninth with 577 while Suruchi Singh was placed 12th with 574. Palak ended in 17th place with 573, while Surbhi Rao (RPO) was 25th with 570.
The 23 year old Manu qualified for the final round after tallying 583 points, to go second in the standings.
India also claimed bronze in the team event as Manu, Suruchi and Palak finished with 1730 points, one behind second-placed Republic of Korea (1731) and 10 behind gold medallist China.
Rashmika Sahgal brought India double delight as she was crowned champion in the junior women's air pistol event.
Rashmika struck gold for India's third individual yellow metal of the competition, displaying amazing career consistency to score 241.9 and finish a massive 4.3 points ahead of silver winning Korean Han Seunghyun.
Rashmika (qualification score 582), then combined with Vanshika Chaudhary (573) and Mohini Singh (565) to win the team gold in the event.
Rashmika was involved in a battle for supremacy from the get go with Korea's Han. However, the Indian crept past her opponent for first time after the 13th single shot and from there never looked back, a 10.9 on her 15th being the icing on the cake.
India has so far won five gold, two silver and four bronze medals in the inter-continental tournament.
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