Hyderabad: Hyderabad shooters who performed exceptionally well at the Asian Shooting Championship in Doha, Qatar, returned home to a warm welcome on Thursday.
Telangana Sports Minister V. Srinivas Goud, Sports Authority of Telangana State chairman Allipuram Venkateshwar Reddy, family and friends of the shooters were among those who received the medallists at the Rajiv Gandhi International airport.
Esha Singh and Dhanush Srikanth won three gold medals each while Abid Ali Khan won a bronze and the team gold.
Esha got the yellow metal in the Individual, Team and Mixed events of the 10-metre Air Pistol junior women’s category while Dhanush secured the title in the Individual, Team and Mixed events in the junior men’s 10-metre air rifle section.
In another event Abid won two medals. He settled for a bronze in the individual and secured the the team gold in 50-metre rifle prone event in the junior men’s category.
Ayush Rudraraju got the team gold in the junior men’s clay pigeon skeet while Kynan Chenai secured the team silver in the clay pigeon trap shooting for men.
Amit Sanghi, President of the Telangana Rifle Association, congratulated and appreciated winners from Telangana State representing India at the Championship.
Sanghi further added that Juniors from Telangana State dominated the Asian Games and more can be expected in the Olympic Quotas for India in future.
The medallists
10m Air Pistol Junior Women
Individual: 1. Esha Singh (India) 579.18x + 242.2. 2. Jeong Hyo (Korea) 568.15x + 237.3. 3.Raghav Priya (India) 574.16x + 217.6.
Mixed Event: 1. India 569.19x + 381.9x (Esha Singh, Sarabjot Singh). 2. Korea 574.14x + 378.14x (Minseo Kim, Yunho Sung). 3.China 559.18x + 376.9x (Shuyao Li, Jinbo Guo).
Team: 1. India 1721.47x (Esha Singh 579.18x, Priya Raghav 574.16x, Yuvika Tomar 568.13x). 2. China 1702.38x (Yaxi Lin 574.16x, Shuyao Li 568.13x, Xiao Tang China 560.9x) 3. Korea 1690.38x (Nageong Gwak Korea 556.11x, Hyo Jeong Korea 568.15x, Minseo Kim 566.12x).
10m Air Rifle Junior Men
Individual: 1. Dhanush Srikanth (India) 625.3 + 248.2; 2. Xuanle Jiang (China) 626.1 + 245.7; 3. Shahu Tushar Mane (India) 629.3 + 226.4.
Mixed Event: 1. India 624.3 + 417.1 (Shreya Agrawal, Dhanush Srikanth). 2. China 628.0 + 421.5 (Zeru Wang, Xuanle Jiang). 3. Iran 626.5 + 414.3 (Armina
Sadeghian, Amirsiyavash Zolfagharian).
Team: 1. India 1877.1 (Shahu Tushar Mane 629.3, Dhanush Srikanth 625.3, Hriday Hazarika 622.5). 2. China 1876.4 (Xuanle Jiang 626.1, Yuannan Xu 625.3, Junzong Hu 625.0). 3. Korea 1860.2 (Nagwan Kim 623.2, Suhyeon Jo 618.8, Junyeong Oh 618.2).
50m Rifle Prone Junior Men
Individual: 1. Yu Hao (China) 617.6, 2. Kumar Niraj (India) 616.3, 3. Abid Ali Khan (India) 614.4.
Team: 1. India 1845 (Kumar Niraj 616.3, Abid Ali Khan 614.4, Gohil Harsharajsinhji J. 614.3). 2. China 1844.4 (Yu Hao 617.5, Wang Mintao 614.3, Sheng Lihao 612.5). 3. Korea 1818 (Song Minho 608.4, Kim Nagwan 608.1, Choi Yongseuk 601.5).
Clay Pigeon Skeet Jr Men
Team: 1. India 343 (Abhay Singh Sekhon 120, Gurnihal Singh Garcha 114, Ayush Rudraraju 109). 2. China 334 (Liangliang WU 113, Shuaijun Yuan 112, Zhangyue Wang 109). 3. Kuwait 318 (Hamad Al Ablani 112, Soud Dh M Dh Alhamli 108, Saleem HNH Alrashidi 98).
Clay Pigeon Trap Men
Team 1. Kuwait 363 (Naser Meqlad 122, Khaled Almudhaf 121, Talal Alrashidi Kuwait 120). 2. India 357 (Kynan Chenai 122, Manavjit Singh Sandhu 118, Prithviraj Tondaiman 117). 3. Qatar 354 (Mohammed Al Rumaihi 120, S A Rashid Hamad Al Athba 120, Saeed Abusharib 114).
