Ankur Goel, Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu and Gurpreet Singh with the centre fire pistol team gold in the Asian shooting championship in Kazakhstan on Friday.
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Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu shot 583 to win the 25-metre centre fire pistol gold in the 16th Asian shooting championship that concluded in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, on Friday.
Former World champion Ankur Mittal won the double trap gold, while the Indian women swept all the medals in double trap.
The 182-strong Indian team wound up with 99 medals, including 50 gold and 26 silver. Quite creditably 55 of those medals iwere individual medals.
Host Kazakhstan was second with 21 gold, 24 silver and 25 bronze. World leader in the sport China was third with 15 gold, 17 silver and five bronze. Korea followed fourth with 12 gold, 21 silver and 22 bronze, while 17 countries figured in the medals table, sharing the overall total of 325 medals.
The results:
25m centre fire pistol: Men: 1. Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu 583, 2. Lee Jaekyoon (Kor) 580, 3. Javad Foroughi (Iri) 579; 4. Gurpreet Singh 579, 11. Ankur Goel 571; RPO: Amanpreet Singh, Gurgaven Singh Sidhu 568.
Team: 1. India 1733; 2. Vietnam 1720; 3. Iran 1700.
25m sports pistol: Junior men: 1. Suraj Sharma 588, 2. Abhinav Choudhary 582, 3. Mukesh Nelavalli 576; RPO: Sameer Ghulia 582; Somil Chaudhary 573; Sahil Choudhary 568.
Team: 1. India 1746; 2. Kazakhstan 1698; 3. Korea 1686.
50m rifle prone: Women: 1. Im Hana (Kor) 620.2; 2. Lee Eunseo (Kor) 620.2; 3. Manini Kaushik 617.8; 7. Surabhi Rapole 614.4; 9.Vidarsa Vinod 613.8; RPO: Sift Kaur Samra 617.9; Tejaswini Sawant 612.4.
Team: 1. Korea 1856.8; 2. India 1846.0; 3. Kazakhstan 1828.2.
Junior women: 1. Oh Sehee (Kor) 618.6; 2. Prachi Gaikwad 616.6; 3. Sofya Malkina (Kaz) 616.3;10. Anushka Thokur 607.6; 16. Tejal Nathawat 599.2;Â RPO: Anshika 611.0; Melvina Angeline 610.6; Aadhya Agrawal 604.8.
Team: 1. Korea 1844.4; 2. Kazakhstan 1830.1; 3. India 1823.4.
Double trap: Men: 1. Ankur Mittal 107 (WR); 2. Artyom Chikulayev (Kaz) 98; 3. Ahmad Alaffasi (Kuw) 96; 14. Bhanu Pratap Singh 82; 16. Harshvardhan Kaviya 75.RPO: Shaikh Mohsin 92.
Team: 1. Kazakhstan 283; 2. Qatar 266; 3. India 264.
Junior men: 1. Assylkhan Aisalbayev (Kaz) 92; 2. Hatim Mohammmed 89; 3. Manavrajsinh Chudasama 87; 7. Vinay Pratap Chandrawat 81; RPO: Yadvendra Chundawat 88; Mohammad Haris 85; Arshabh Singh 75.
Team: 1. India 257; 2. Kazakhstan 246; 3. Uzbekistan 241.
Women: 1. Anushka Singh Bhati 93; 2. Rajkuwar Ingle 89; 3. Yeshaya Contractor 87.
Team: 1. India 269; 2. Kazakhstan 220.
Junior women: 1. Anita Nurlanova (Kaz) 81; 2. Eleonora Ibragimova (Kaz) 78; 3. Avani Koli 77; 6. Krishika Joshi 61; 7. Smita Sawant 61;Â RPO: Anandi Singh 69.
Team: 1. Kazakhstan 228; 2. India 199; 3. Uzbekistan 133.
Published – August 29, 2025 08:19 pm IST
