New Delhi [India], February 11 (ANI): Olympian and world championship silver medalist Anish Bhanwala clinched bronze within the males’s 25m rapid-fire pistol (RFP), his third Asian Championship medal, as Kazakhstan dominated day eight of the Asian Rifle/Pistol Championship, New Delhi 2026, selecting up 4 gold medals right here on the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range on Wednesday.
Adriyan Karmakar within the 50m rifle susceptible junior males’s occasion and the junior males’s 25m RFP staff additionally gained gold on the day, taking India’s table-topping medal tally to 41 gold, 19 silver and 15 bronze medals, with two extra days of competitions left, in accordance with a launch.
Anish Bhanwala and Adarsh Singh took the seventh and eighth qualifying spots with scores of 574 and 573 respectively, guaranteeing two Indians within the RFP remaining. Former champion Nikita Chiryukin of Kazakhstan topped the qualifiers with a 582 and led a trio of his mates into the decider.
Japanese Dai Yoshioka, a two-time Olympian and a world cup gold medalist and Ha Minh Thanh, a double Asian Games medalist additionally went by together with Ha’s teammate Vu Tien Nam.
In the ultimate consisting of eight sequence of 5 rapid-fire pictures, Yoshioka, Anish and Chiryukin have been quickest off the blocks as Vu and Kazakh Artemiy Kabakov, turned the primary two to be eradicated after the third sequence.
As long-time staff mate Adarsh bowed out after the fourth sequence with 11 hits to his identify, Anish discovered himself in joint lead with Yoshioka and Nikita after the sixth sequence with 21 hits.
However, he bought two hits within the seventh because the Japanese struck 5 and Chiryukin 4, settling for bronze, the identical outcome he had three years in the past on the Changwon Asian Championships.
Yoshioka went on to shut with one other good 5 to improve his Changwon efficiency by one, ending on a world and Asian report rating of 31. Chiryukin gained silver with 28 hits, whereas Anish ended on 23 hits.
Earlier within the first occasion of the day, Islam Satpayev, the gifted Kazakh rifle shooter who gained a bronze on the Paris Olympics within the combined staff occasion, shone vivid on the day profitable a few golds within the non-Olympic however well-liked 50m rifle susceptible males’s competitions.
He gained the person occasion with a rating of 622.5 and likewise the staff gold in alliance with teammates Nikita Shakhtorin (622.5, particular person silver) & Konstantin Malinovsky (615.0).
India gained a bronze by Babu Singh Panwar (621.3) within the particular person males’s occasion and a silver within the staff occasion when Babu mixed with Samarvir Singh (618.2) and Sartaj Singh Tiwana (614.4).
In the junior males’s rifle susceptible, India’s Adriyan Karmakar gained gold with a tally of 621.7 over 60 pictures.
The Kazakhs took silver and bronze by Oleg Noskov (620.6) and Tamerlan Kabulov (617.3). Kazakhstan additionally took the staff gold within the occasion with a tally of 1848.7, being higher than India’s 1847.6.
In the ultimate occasion of the day, the junior males’s 25m RFP, Indonesia’s Muhamad Fawwaz Aditia Farrel took gold with a rating of 29 within the remaining, which was additionally a world and Asian junior report. India’s Suraj Sharma took silver with 23 and Mukesh Nelavalli bronze with a rating of 19.
Suraj (582) and Mukesh (572) gained gold within the staff competitors although, combining with Sahil Choudhary (575) within the qualification spherical to publish a complete of 1729. Team Kazakhstan took silver with a tally of 1613. (ANI)