The three blended air rifle gold medalists, Shambhavi Kshirsagar & Naraen Pranav, Elavenil Valarivan & Arjun Babuta, and Ameerah Arshad & Ansh Dabas, within the Asian taking pictures championship in Kazakhstan on Saturday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

It was a sweep of the air rifle blended workforce gold medals for India because it gained the three occasions together with juniors and youth within the sixteenth Asian Shooting Championship in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, on Saturday.

Elavenil Valarivan, the ladies’s gold medallist, continued to excel as she joined palms with Arjun Babuta to clinch the blended gold, beating the Chinese Peng Xinlu and Lu Dingke 17-11, after having topped qualification with a powerful 634.0.

Mehuli Ghosh and Rudrankksh Patil shot the second greatest rating of 632.6 however a second Indian workforce was ineligible to compete for a medal.

In the juniors, Shambhavi Kshirsagar and Naraen Pranav prevailed 16-12 over China, after having certified within the third place behind two Chinese groups. The second Indian workforce of Isha Taksale and Himanshu (628.6) was additionally ineligible to combat for a medal.

In the youth part, Ameerah Arshad and Ansh Dabas beat the Koreans 16-12 for the gold, after topping qualification with 629.4. The second Indian workforce of Anannya and Vedant Waghmare shot the second greatest rating of 624.8, however was ineligible to combat for a medal.

India was sitting on high of the medals desk with 23 gold, eight silver and 10 bronze medals. China adopted with 9 gold, 9 silver and two bronze, whereas host Kazakhstan had 5 gold, six silver and 10 bronze. Korea (24) had extra medals, however was mendacity fourth owing to 2 gold, aside from 13 silver and 9 bronze.

The outcomes: 10m air rifle: Mixed workforce: 1. India-2 (Elavenil Valarivan, Arjun Babuta) 17 (634.0); 2. China (Peng Xinlu, Lu Dingke) 11 (632.3); 3. Korea (Kwon Eunji, Park Hajun) 16 (630.1); 4. Kazakhstan-2 (Yelizaveta Bezrukova, Nikita Shakhtorin) 10 (629.5); 3. Japan (Hinata Taichi, Naoki Hanakawa) 16 (628.2); 4. Iran (Shermineh Amirani, Amirmohammad Nekounam) 10 (629.8).

Mixed juniors: 1. India (Shambhavi Kshirsagar, Naraen Pranav) 16 (629.5); 2. China (Tang Huiqi, Han Yinan) 12 (632.3); 3. Korea (Kim Seohyun, Lee Hyunseo) 17 (628.4); 4. Indonesia (Dominique Karini, Anang Febrian) 5 (627.0); 3. Singapore (Irna Noorazlin, Zen Wong) 16 (626.3); 4. Kazakhstan (Antastassiya Grigoryeva, Dmitriy Kim) 12 (627.1).

Mixed youth: 1. India (Ameerah Arshad, Ansh Dabas) 16 (629.4); 2. Korea (Kim Minseo, Shin Sungwoo) 12 (623.1); 3. Iran (Abdollaisafayesh Nazaninzahra, Tahmasebiabdar Mahdi) 16 (622.6); 4. Uzbekistan (Milena Khakimova, Muhammad Jon Anvarov) 4 (612.2); 3. Kyrgyzstan (Zhibek Bektasova, Abdu Razzak Muratov) 16 (612.4); 4. Mongolia (Enkhkhuslen Erdenesaikhan, Enkhmandakh Bayaraa) 1 (612.0).

Published – August 23, 2025 08:17 pm IST