Anantjeet emerges Asian skeet champion

Asian Games silver medallist Anantjeet Singh Naruka emerged the Asian champion in skeet as he beat Mansour Alrashidi of Kuwait 57-56 in the 16th Asian shooting championship in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday.

After the silver in the Asian championship in Kuwait last year, it was a splendid elevation to the gold for the 25-year-old Anantjeet who had finished fourth in the Paris Olympics in mixed skeet with Maheshwari Chauhan.

Maheshwari herself missed a medal in women’s skeet and placed fourth. However, along with Ganemat Sekhon and Raiza Dhillon, she won the team bronze behind China and Kazakhstan.

In junior mixed air pistol, Vanshika Chaudhary and Jonathan Antony won the gold by beating the qualification topper Korean team 16-14.

The other Indian pair of Rashmika Sahgal and Kapil Bainsla did shoot the third best qualification score of 576, but was ineligible to fight for a medal.

Gamberya Gowda and Girish Gupta bagged the junior mixed team gold, by beating Iran 16-14. Kanak and Pankaj shot the second best qualification score of 569, but were ineligible to compete for a medal.

In the main mixed pistol event, Suruchi Phogat and Saurabh Chaudhary won one of the two bronze medals by beating Chinese Taipei 17-9. China beat Korea for the gold 16-12. While the second Chinese and Korean teams were ineligible to compete for a medal even though they had placed third and fourth in qualification.

The results:

10m air pistol mixed team: 1. China (Ma Qianke, Zhang Yifan) 16 (580); 2. Korea (Yoo Hyunyoung, Lee Wonho) 12 (581); 3. India (Suruchi Phogat, Saurabh Chaudhary) 17 (578); 4. Chinese Taipei (Heng-Yu Liu, Hsiang-Chen Hsieh) 9 (577); 3. Iran (Haniyeh Rostamiyan, Vahid Golkhandan) 16 (578); 4. Vietnam (Thuy Trang Nguyen, Cong Minh Lai) 8 (577); 10. India-2 (Palak Gulia, Aditya Malra) 575.

Juniors: 1. India-2 (Vanshika Chaudhary, Jonathan Antony) 16 (578); 2. Korea (Kim Yejin, Kim Dooyeon) 14 (579); 3. Kazakhstan (Saule Alimbek, Kirill Fedkin) 16 (566); 4. Uzbekistan (Iroda Azimboeva, Sodikjon Abdullaev) 14 (556); 3. Hong Kong (Lok Yi Cheung, Kwun Chung) 17 (552); 4. Indoensia (Rihadatul Asyifa, Muhamad Prabowo) 15 (564).

Youth: 1. India (Gamberya Gowda, Girish Gupta) 16 (575); 2. Iran (Amiri Parimah, Mohammed Reza Ahmadi) 14 (567); 3. Kyrgyzstan (Kaiyrgul Kubanychbekova, Anvar Ibraimov) 16 (552); 4. Mongolia (Ariunzaya Amarbaysgalan, Munkhbayar Bayarmagnai) 8 (564); 3. Kazakhstan (Alissa Kradenova, Daniil Smmirnov) 16 (599); 4. Korea (Kim Juwon, Gu Jamin) 12 (566).

Skeet: Men: 1. Anantjeet Singh Naruka 57 (119); 2. Mansour Alrashidi (Kuw) 56 (119); 3. Ali Ahmed Al-Ishaq (Qat) 43 (118); 28. Bhavtegh Singh Gill 112; 31. Abhay Singh Sekhon 112; RPO: Angad Vir Singh Bajwa 117.

Team: 1. Kuwait 353; 2. Korea 351; 3. Qatar 346; 6. India 343.

Women: 1. Jiang Yiting (Chn) 57 (117); 2. Che Yufei (Chn) 56 (115); 3. Anastasiya Molchanova (Kaz) 45 (112); 4. Maheshwari Chauhan 35 (113); 11. Ganemat Sekhon 109; 12. Raiza Dhillon 107; RPO: Rashmmi Rathore 101.

Team: 1. China 342; 2. Kazakhstan 339; 3. India 329.

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