New Delhi [India], September 25 (ANI): Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday congratulated Indian shooters Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil, Niraj Kumar, Kamaljeet and Suruchi Singh on their medal-winning performances on the Asian Games 2026.
Taking to X, Mandaviya congratulated Tomar, Patil and Asian Games debutant Niraj Kumar after the trio gained the silver medal within the males’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions Team occasion.
‘Heartiest congratulations to Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil and Asian Games debutant Niraj Kumar on successful the Silver Medal within the Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions Team occasion on the #AsianGames2026,’ Mandaviya wrote on X.
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Mandaviya’s message got here after the Indian trio secured the silver medal within the crew occasion, including one other medal to India’s taking pictures marketing campaign on the continental sporting occasion.
Kharge additionally took to X to congratulate Kamaljeet and Suruchi Singh following their gold medal triumph within the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team occasion.
‘Heartiest congratulations to Kamaljeet and Suruchi Singh on their magnificent Gold Medal triumph within the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team occasion on the #AsianGames2026! Your exceptional efficiency has made your complete nation proud. Wishing you each a really brilliant future and lots of extra superb achievements forward,’ Kharge wrote on X.
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India had a powerful outing on the Asian Games 2026, with taking pictures delivering a gold and a silver medal. Kamaljeet and Suruchi Inder Singh gained gold within the 10m air pistol blended crew occasion, whereas Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil and Niraj Kumar secured silver within the males’s 50m rifle 3 positions crew occasion. Tomar and Niraj will even compete within the particular person last.
India additionally confirmed medals in blended doubles in desk tennis and squash, with Diya Chitale-Manush Shah and Joshana Chinappa-Velavan Senthilkumar advancing after quarterfinal victories. Yashaswini Ghorpade progressed to the third spherical of girls’s singles however later misplaced her blended doubles quarterfinal with Harmeet Desai.
In hockey, India defeated Japan 3-1 within the ladies’s Pool B match. Swimming noticed Sajan Prakash qualify for the boys’s 200m butterfly last, whereas Rishabh Das and Utkarsh Patil superior within the males’s 200m backstroke. Dhruv Kapila-Tanisha Crasto and Unnati Hooda additionally registered badminton wins.
In different occasions, India superior to Final B in males’s kayak double 500m, whereas athletes in canoe dash and fencing suffered exits. The ladies’s kayak 4 completed eighth, and Anamika Aneesh and Pooja remained seventh and ninth respectively within the heptathlon standings. India additionally misplaced 0-2 to South Korea in Pokemon Unite esports. (ANI)