Incheon: Indian team comprising Shreyasi Singh, Shagun Chaudhary, Varsha Varman won the bronze medal in the Double Trap Women’s Team Finals at the 17th Asian Games here on Thursday.China clinched gold with a total of 315 and South Korea bagged silver (314) at Gyeonggido Shooting Range.The Indian trio fired 71, 68, 70, 70 totalling 279 to grab the third position in the event.
Earlier, Indian shooters started their day on a disappointing note at the Okryeon International Shooting Range.In the 50m Rifle Prone Men’s Team Finals, India finished fourth after aggregating a total score of 1852.8 with the help of 97x.In the individual event, Joydeep Karmakar finished 10th in qualification, Gagan Narang was placed 14th while Hariom Singh was at 29th.
In 25m Standard Pistol Men’s Team event, India finished fifth with a total score of 1684 that included 34x.In the 25m standard pistol individual event, Gurpreet Singh (570 with the help of 18x) managed to reach fifth position, while Mahaveer Singh was at 17th and Samaresh Jung could manage only a 24th-place finish.
Indian rowers provided the spark with a couple of bronze medals, while the unfancied women shooters added another bronze as India maintained their 15th position in the overall standings with a tally of 15 in the 17th Asian Games here on Wednesday.
Armyman Swaran Singh Virk rowed his way through exhaustion to the third spot in single sculls before the men’s squad added the eights title on yet another mixed day for the Indian contingent.
India were assured of a silver in archery while the squash players were also assured of a bronze each in the men’s and women’s team events after making the semifinals.
But it was heartbreak for the Indian men’s hockey team which went down to arch-rivals Pakistan 1-2 in a group B encounter. The defeat has put India’s chances of progressing to the next round in jeopardy.
With the addition of three more to the tally today, India were placed 15th with one gold, a silver and 13 bronze medals. China continued to lead with 152 medals (77-41-34) followed by hosts South Korea (28-33-30) and Japan (27-35-31).
Rowers were, however, the stars of on Thursday’s proceedings for India.
As the rowing events ended at the ChungjuTangeum Lake International Rowing Centre, India’s modest tally of medals stood at three bronze, the first having been won on Wednesday by Dushyant Chauhan in men’s lightweight single sculls.
The performance was lower in both quality as well as quantity to the 2010 tally of 1 gold medal, 3 silver and 1 bronze.
Naik Subedar Swaran Singh must be complimented for putting up a brave effort. The timing he clocked here to win the bronze covering the 2000m distance (7 minutes, 10.65 seconds), was better than his performance at the London Olympic Games two years ago timing wise (7:29.66).
But the extra effort the 24-year-old former volleyball player put in towards the end when he tried to ward off the challenge from South Korean rival Kim Dongyong, who secured the silver, saw him collapse due to exhaustion. He fell off the boat into the water, and had to be taken out by the rescue team to the ambulance.
Later the men’s picked up the eights bronze by securing the third position behind gold medal winners China and Japan who crossed the finish line in 1:27.96 and 1:30.39 respectively.
The Indian team of Kapil Sharma, Ranjit Singh, 2010 single sculls gold medal winner Bajrang Lal Takhar, P U Robin, K Sawan Kumar, Mohammad Azad, Maninder Singh, Davinder Singh and Mohammed Ahmed started sluggishly to be trailing in fourth at the halfway stage before making the extra effort to clinch the bronze.
However, for the second successive day India drew a blank at the nearby Ongnyeon pistol and rifle range where hot shot Gagan Narang, Gurpreet Singh, Mahaveer Singh and seasoned Samaresh Jung made his appearance and flopped individually as well as collectively with his team-mates in 50m rifle prone event.(pti)