“Brings immense pride to nation”: President Droupadi Murmu hails India’s taking pictures silver medallists at Asian Games 2026

New Delhi [India], September 20 (ANI): President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday congratulated Indian shooters Elavenil Valarivan, Vidarsa Okay Vinod and Sonam Uttam Maskar for profitable the silver medal within the ladies’s 10m air rifle workforce occasion on the Asian Games 2026.

The President’s official deal with on X praised the trio for opening India’s medal account on the Games and expressed her finest needs for his or her future success.

‘Heartiest congratulations to Elavenil Valarivan, Vidarsa Okay Vinod and Sonam Uttam Maskar on profitable Silver Medal within the Women’s 10m Air Rifle Team occasion on the Asian Games 2026. Your commendable achievement has opened India’s medal account on the Games and brings immense delight to the nation. My finest needs to your continued success,’ the submit learn.

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India loved a robust begin on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026, with taking pictures main the medal cost. Elavenil Valarivan gained silver within the ladies’s 10m air rifle particular person last after earlier teaming up with Sonam Maskar and Vidarsa Vinod to safe one other silver within the workforce occasion. 

Suchika Tariyal confirmed a medal in ladies’s conventional 60kg MMA after defeating Mongolia’s Altanchimeg Baigalmaa within the quarterfinal. India’s desk tennis groups additionally registered 3-0 wins over Indonesia in each ladies’s and males’s workforce occasions, whereas the ladies’s hockey workforce started their marketing campaign with a dominant 19-0 victory over Uzbekistan.

Earlier, 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 Okay 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 submit. (ANI)