“Another silver for Bharat”: Union Sports Minister hails Indian 10 m air rifle group medalists at Asian Games 2026

New Delhi [India], September 21 (ANI): Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya hailed the capturing trio of Rudrankksh Patil, Parth Rakesh Mane and Himanshu Dhillon for securing a silver within the males’s 10 m air rifle group occasion on the ongoing Asian Games in Japan on Monday. 

India’s medal run in capturing continued because the trio of Rudrankksh Patil, Parth Mane and Himanshu Dhillon secured a silver medal within the males’s 10 m air rifle group occasion on the ongoing Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya on Monday. Team India managed a silver with a rating of 1890.1, in need of first-place China’s 1899.0. The bronze medal went to South Korea, with a rating of 1841.4. 

This marks their third medal of the Asian Games 2026, all of them silver medals coming in capturing. 

Posting on X, Mandaviya wrote, ‘Another Silver for Bharat! Many congratulations to Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil, Parth Rakesh Mane and Himanshu Dhillon on securing the Silver Medal within the Men’s 10m Air Rifle Team occasion on the #AsianGames2026. #Cheer4Bharat.’

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In the boys’s 10 air rifle particular person qualifying spherical, additionally performing because the group ultimate, Rudrankksh completed in third place with 631.8, with Himanshu ending seventh (630.0). Parth, with a rating of 628.3, completed in eleventh place. Rudrankksh and Himanshu made it to the person ultimate as effectively. The trio mixed to supply a silver-winning rating of 1890.1 as a group. 

Earlier on Sunday, the ladies’s 10m Air Rifle occasion delivered two podium finishes for India, giving the nation a robust begin on the primary full day of competitors. Elavenil Valarivan secured silver within the particular person ultimate, whereas Valarivan, Sonam Uttam Maskar and Vidarsa Kochalumkal Vinod mixed to assert silver within the group occasion. (ANI)