New Delhi [India], September 29 (ANI): Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday congratulated Manisha Keer, Neeru and Aashima Ahlawat after the Indian girls’s taking pictures group secured the silver medal within the lure group occasion on the Asian Games 2026.
Mandaviya prolonged his congratulations to the trio, significantly highlighting Asian Games debutants Neeru and Aashima Ahlawat, in a put up on X.
‘Heartiest congratulations to Manisha Keer, Asian Games debutants Neeru and Aashima Ahlawat on securing the Silver Medal within the Women’s Trap Team occasion on the Asian Games 2026,’ Mandaviya wrote on X.
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The Indian girls’s taking pictures group of Neeru, Aashima Ahlawat and Manisha Keer clinched the silver medal within the girls’s lure group occasion on the Asian Games 2026 in Japan on Tuesday.
The Indian trio completed with a mixed rating of 328 factors, three factors forward of Kuwait, who secured the bronze medal with 325 factors. China gained the gold medal with a rating of 346 factors.
Neeru produced India’s finest particular person efficiency, scoring 118 out of 125 to assist the group end forward of Kuwait and safe the silver medal. Aashima and Manisha contributed scores of 106 and 104, respectively, out of a potential 125.
Neeru additionally completed joint-top within the particular person qualifying spherical alongside Qatar’s Ray Bassil. She will compete within the particular person closing afterward Tuesday.
The silver medal marks India’s podium end within the girls’s lure group occasion on the ongoing Asian Games in Japan.
India’s Shapath Bharadwaj, Kynan Chenai and Ahvar Rizvi completed sixth within the males’s lure group closing, with Shapath advancing to the person closing. In archery, Dhiraj Bommadevara and Neeraj Chauhan reached the lads’s recurve particular person quarterfinals after successful their respective Round of 16 matches.
In canoe slalom, Hitesh Kewat and Pradhyumna Singh Rathod, together with Pallavi Jagtap and Rina Sen, superior to the semi-finals.
India completed seventh in males’s group dash and sixth in girls’s group dash biking, whereas the ladies’s group pursuit squad completed fifth and final. In kurash, Vipin Kumar misplaced his males’s 66kg Round of 16 bout, whereas India’s girls’s squash group defeated Iran 3-0 to succeed in the quarterfinals. In browsing, Kishore Kumar Anbarasu was knocked out within the males’s shortboard quarterfinal. (ANI)