Mandaviya hails Anantjeet-Parinaaz’s historic combined skeet crew bronze at Asian Games 2026

New Delhi [India], September 24 (ANI): Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya hailed the duo of Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Anantjeet Singh Naruka for securing the nation’s first-ever skeet crew combined occasion bronze on the ongoing Asian Games 2026. 

The combined pairing of Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Parinaaz Dhaliwal captured the bronze medal within the combined crew skeet taking pictures finals on the ongoing Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya on Thursday. 

Posting on X, Mandaviya wrote, ‘Historic Bronze for Bharat!   Heartiest congratulations to Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Anantjeet Singh Naruka on securing the first-ever Bronze Medal within the Skeet Mixed Team occasion on the #AsianGames2026. #Cheer4Bharat’

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The combined pairing of Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Parinaaz Dhaliwaal captured the bronze medal within the combined crew skeet taking pictures finals on the ongoing Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya on Thursday. 

India managed a rating of 44 throughout six collection, with China setting a world file with a rating of 52 to win the gold. The silver went to South Korea, which had a rating of 51. 

China broke the world file of 47, beforehand held by Qatar since January 2026, with the previous file holders ending in fourth and ultimate spot with 18 factors. 

This is India’s fifteenth medal on the ongoing Asian Games, having received a gold medal, six silvers and now including an eighth bronze to the tally. This additionally marks India’s eighth medal in taking pictures this version, equally cut up between silver and bronze medals.

Anantjeet and Parinaaz completed fourth within the qualification spherical, getting 138/150 factors, as per Olympics.com. Above them are Qatar (145), South Korea (143) and China (140). This is how they made it to the title conflict together with the aforementioned groups. 

Ananjeet and Parinaaz have been a part of India’s respective males’s and girls’s skeet groups on Wednesday, which secured medals, with Ananjeet taking part in a vital function within the crew’s bronze medal win, whereas Parinaaz, together with Raiza Dhillon and Maheshwari Chauhan, secured the bronze medal for the ladies’s crew as properly. 

This comes after a extremely dissappointing miss within the males’s 10 m air pistol crew occasion because the trio of Kamaljeet, Kedarling Balakrishna and Aakash Bhardwaj completed fourth.

India completed in fourth place with a rating of 1727-53x. Above them have been China (1743-70x), Indonesia (1743-57x) and Japan (1730-54x).

Kamaljeet accomplished his 60 pictures with a rating of 580-16x and was positioned ninth. On the opposite hand, Aakash completed eleventh with a rating of 579-20x. Only the highest eight shooters earn qualification for the person ultimate. Kedarling Uchaganve completed thirty fifth with a rating of 568.

India slipped from third to fourth place following Kedarling’s efficiency.

Earlier, Indian wushu athlete Roshibina Devi secured her second consecutive silver medal on the Asian Games, dropping to China’s Zhang Xiaoyu within the girls’s sanda 60 kg ultimate on Thursday. 

Roshibina, additionally a 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games silver medalist, misplaced each rounds by a 0-5 scoreline, and the Chinese opponent sealed the match 2-0, as per ESPN.

Having already received a 2018 Asian Games bronze, Roshibina turns into the primary Indian lady to win three back-to-back medals in Wushu on the Asian Games.

Roshibina loved a powerful run in Japan, which included beating 2023 world champion Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy of Vietnam.

On Wednesday, Roshibina defeated Indonesia’s Thania Kusumaningtyas 2-0 within the semi-final to safe her place within the title conflict.

Also, the pairing of Satnam Singh and Salman Khan secured a bronze medal within the males’s double sculls ultimate on Thursday. 

The duo clocked a time of 6:13.25, simply 3.48 seconds in need of China’s gold medalists Yi Xudi / Nie Yide and a pair of.76 seconds behind the silver medalists Mekhrojbek Mamatkulov / Pavel Sorin, as per ESPN. 

Satnam-Salman maintained the second place at 500m, 1000m and 1500m however fell away in the direction of the top. At one level, they have been simply half a second behind the Chinese pair. 

In males’s singles sculls competitions, Balraj Panwar missed out on a medal, ending fourth. Balraj managed to remain second on the 500m, 1000m and 1500m marks, however later discovered himself outdone by Shakhboz Kholmurzaev of Uzbekistan and Tatsuya Sakurama of Japan throughout the ultimate 500 m stretch, and he misplaced the medal. 

Balraj maintained a five-second lead over Sakurama forward of the ultimate stretch however completed eight seconds in need of him, clocking a time of 6:54.80, 15 seconds behind the gold medalist Zhiwei Deng of China. (ANI)