Asian Games 2026: MansukhMandaviya hails Indian shooters’ silver in Women’s 10m Air Rifle Team occasion

Nagoya [Japan], September 20 (ANI): Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Sunday hailed Indian shooters Elavenil Valarivan, Sonam Maskar, and Vidarsa Vinod for profitable silver within the Women’s 10m Air Rifle Team occasion, securing India’s first medal on the 2026 Asian Games. 

The Indian trio scored 1898.0 factors to win silver, ending behind China, which claimed gold with a world-record 1904.2 factors. Host Japan took bronze with 1897.1 factors.

‘India’s first medal at #AsianGames2026! Congratulations to Elavenil Valarivan, Sonam Maskar & Vidarsa Ok Vinod on securing Silver within the Women’s 10m Air Rifle Team occasion. Wishing our champions and your complete Indian contingent many extra moments of glory,’ Mandaviya wrote in an X publish. 

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The end result marked India’s first confirmed medal on the twentieth Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya. Earlier, MMA fighter Suchika Tariyal turned the primary Indian athlete to guarantee a medal by advancing to the semifinals of the ladies’s Traditional MMA 60kg competitors, the place each dropping semifinalists are awarded bronze medals.

Sonam emerged as India’s prime scorer within the group occasion with 634.1 factors, whereas Elavenil contributed 633.5 and Vidarsa 630.4, taking the Indian group’s mixed tally to 1898.0 factors.

India had extra motive to rejoice as Elavenil and Sonam additionally superior to the person last. Their qualifying scores positioned each shooters among the many prime eight finalists within the particular person ladies’s 10m air rifle competitors. 

The two Indians will now have one other alternative so as to add to the nation’s medal tally once they compete within the eight-woman particular person 10m air rifle last in a while Sunday. (ANI)