Ashi, Sift Samra and Anjum (bottom left to right) and Mahit, Anushka and Prachi (top left to right) who won the 50m rifle 3-position women’s and junior women’s titles.
World record holder and Asian Games champion Sift Kaur Samra beat Yang Yujie of China by 0.4 point to cinch the gold, after topping qualification with 589, in the rifle 3-position event in the 16th Asian shooting championship in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday.
The Indian shooters continued their remarkable gold hunt, with eight gold medals on the day, apart from the silver and bronze.
Sift won the team gold also along with Ashi Chouksey and Anjum Moudgil.
The juniors were not to be left behind in the rifle 3-position event as Anushka Thoukur won the individual gold, and the team gold in the company of Mahit Sandhu and Prachi Gaikwad.
Anushka was particularly impressive as she beat Oh Sehee of Korea by five points for the gold, while Prachi had done well to top score in qualification with 588.
Sabeera Haris beat compatriot Addya Katyal 39-38 for the junior women’s trap gold, and the team took the gold, with Bhavya Tripathi pulling her weight by scoring 109.
Arya Vansh Tyagi lost the shoot-off for gold 0-1 to Nikita Moisseyev of Kazakhstan in junior men’s trap. The team gold was won by India with Arjun and Vinay Pratap Chandrawat lending support.
India also won the junior men’s rapid fire pistol team gold, while the young Sameer Gulia won the individual bronze.
India took its medals tally to the top with 39 gold, 14 silver and 17 bronze.
The results: 50m rifle 3-position: Women: 1. Sift Kaur Samra 459.2 (589); 2. Yang Yujie (Chn) 458.8 (584); 3. Misaki Nobata (Jpn) 448.2 (587); 7. Ashi Chouksey 402.8 (586); 22. Anjum Moudgil 578; RPO; Shriyanka Sadangi 589; Mehuli Ghosh 577.
Team: 1. India 1753; 2. Japan 1750; 3. Korea 1747.
Juniors: 1. Anushka Thokur 460.7 (583); 2. Oh Sehee (Kor) 455.7 (584); 3. Sim Yeojin (Kor) 443.9 (580); 5. Mahit Sandhu 423.0 (587); 6. Prachi Gaikwad 413.9 (588); 7. Melvina Angeline 576; 9. Aadhya Agrawal 572; 21. Rutuja Gavali 545.
Team: 1. India 1758; 2. Korea 1740; 3. Kazakhstan 1706.
25m rapid fire pistol: Junior men: 1. Son Geonwoo (Kor) 25(4) 567; 2. Kirill Tsukanov (Kaz) 25(3) 572; 3. Sameer 21 (576); 5. Suraj Sharma 12 (577); 6. Abhinav Choudhary 4 (571).
Team: 1. India 1724; 2. Kazakhstan 1685; 3. Korea 1673.
Trap: Junior men: 1. Nikita Moisseyev (Kaz) 40(1) 117; 2. Arya Vansh Tyagi 40(0) 112; 3. Ghassan Baaklini (Lbn) 31 (116); 4. Arjun 26 (110); 6. Vinay Pratap Chandrawat 15 (112); 9. Aman Chauhan 107; 10. Zuhair Khan 106; 12. Udhav Rathore 106.
Team: 1. India 328; 2. Kazakhstan 322; 3. Kuwait 297.
Junior women: 1. Sabeera Haris 39 (105); 2. Addya Katyal 38 (110); 3. Milana Papchikhina (Kaz) 29 (106); 6. Bhavya Tripathi 14 (109); 10. Shreshtha Sisodiya 101.
Team: 1. India 324; 2. Kazakhstan 323.
Published – August 26, 2025 09:39 pm IST
