Kapil Bainsla and Girish Gupta, who received the junior and youth gold medals in air pistol within the Asian capturing championship in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, on Monday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Kapil Bainsla received the air pistol gold within the junior males’s occasion by beating Ilkhombek Obidjonov of Uzbekistan by 0.6 level within the sixteenth Asian capturing championship in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, on Monday.

Qualification prime scorer, Jonathan Antony (582) received the bronze.

In males’s air pistol, Amit Sharma and Varun Tomar shot excessive scores of 588 and 584, however they might not battle for medals as they have been within the RPO part. In the common occasion, Anmol Jain alone made the ultimate with a rating of 580 and ultimately positioned sixth.

India did win the group silver in each the boys’s and junior occasions behind China and Korea respectively.

There was some cheer for India within the youth part, with Girish Gupta and Dev Pratap profitable the gold and silver respectively, and fetching a group silver as nicely behind Iran.

The outcomes: 10m air pistol: Men: 1. Hu Kai (Chn) 241.6 (585); 2. Hong Suhyeon (Kor) 239.0 (580); 3. Amir Joharikhou (Iri) 216.8 (582); 6. Anmol Jain 155.1 (580); 13. Aditya Malra 579; 21. Saurabh Chaudhary 576; RPO: Amit Sharma 588; Varun Tomar 584.

Team: 1. China 1744; 2. India 1735; 3. Iran 1733.

Juniors: 1. Kapil Bainsla 243.0 (579); 2. Ilkhombek Obidjonov (Uzb) 242.4 (575); 3. Jonathan Antony 220.7 (582); 6. Mukesh Nelavalli 157.8 (582); RPO: Chirag Sharma 577; Shiva Narwal 575; 19. Vijay Tomar 562.

Team: 1. Korea 1734; 2. India 1723; 3. Kazakhstan 1712.

Youth: 1. Girish Gupta 241.3 (577); 2. Dev Pratap 238.6 (567), 3. Mohammad Reza Ahmadi (Iri) 217.0 (577); 6. Pankaj 156.6 (572).

Team: 1. Iran 1721; 2. India 1716; 3. Korea 1699.

Published – August 18, 2025 06:55 pm IST