Women’s air rifle gold medalist Elavenil Valarivan in the Asian Championship in Kazakhstan on Friday.
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Elavenil Valarivan battled the Chinese and Koreans efficiently to bag the women’s air rifle gold with a 0.6 point margin over Peng Xinlu in the 16th Asian shooting championship in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, on Friday.
It was the second Asian championship individual gold for the 26-year-old Elavenil, following the first in 2019.
The two-time Olympian and former world No.1, Elavenil had won two World Cup individual gold medals, apart from the World Cup Final gold, in a distinguished shooting career.
World Championship silver medallist, Mehuli Ghosh placed fourth. The Indian team won the bronze behind China and Korea.
In mixed skeet, Ganemat Sekhon and Abhay Singh Sekhon won one of the two bronze medals by beating a strong Kuwait team 39-37.
Yashasvi Rathore and Harmehar Singh Lally won the junior mixed skeet gold by beating Kazakhstan 39-36, in a small field.
The results: 10m air rifle: Women: 1. Elavenil Valarivan 253.6 (630.7); 2. Peng Xinlu (Chn) 253.0 (634.6); 3. Kwon Eunji (Kor) 231.2 (635.1); 4. Mehuli Ghosh 208.9 (630.3); 11. Ananya Naidu 630.0; RPO: Arya Borse 633.2; Sonam Maskar 630.5.
Team: 1. China 1902.0 (WR); 2. Korea 1897.5; 3. India 1891.0.
Juniors: 1. Kim Hyobeen (Kor) 251.1 (631.3); 2. Tang Huiqi (Chn) 251.0 (629.0); 3. Du Yuchen (Chn) 229.5 (633.9); 5. Shambhavi Kshirsagar 186.3 (633.7); 6. IshaTaksale 165.2 (630.4); 7. Hrudya Kondur 143.2 (632.1); 9. Ojasvi Thakur 628.3; 14. Parigha Bele 627.0; 28. Anvii Rathod 618.3.
Team: 1. India 1896.2; 2. China 1884.9; 3. Korea 1879.0.
Youth: 1. Anannya 251.0 (626.1); 2. Abdollahisafayesh Nazaninzahra (Iri) 249.9 (624.2); 3. Bhumi 228.9 9628.7); 4. Ameerah Arshad 207.0 (624.8).
Team: 1. India 1879.6; 2. Korea 1868.9; 3. Mongolia 1865.2.
Skeet: Mixed team: 1. China (Jiang Yiting, Han Xu) 42 (141); 2. Kazakhstan (Anastassiya Molchanova, Eduard Yechshenko) 40 (141); 3. India (Ganemat Sekhon, Abhay Singh Sekhon) 39 (138); 4. Kuwait (Afrah Almohammad, Abdullah Alrashidi) 37 (136); 3. Qatar (Sarah Mohammed, Ali Ahmed Al-Ishaq) 38 (136); 4. Korea (Jang Kookhee, Lee Jongjun) 36 (139); 12. India-2 (Raiza Dhillon, Bhavtegh Singh Gill) 130.
Mixed team juniors: 1. India (Yashasvi Rathore, Harmehar Singh Lally) 39 (137); 2. Kazakhstan (Lidiya Basharova, Maxim Pochivalov) 36 (133); 3. Kazakhstan-2 (Angelina Sorokina, Artyom Sedelnikov) 40 (130); 4. India-2 (Agrima Kanwar, Ishaan Singh Libra) 36 (132).
Published – August 22, 2025 07:21 pm IST
