Incheon : India’s unheralded women shooters nailed the bronze in team double trap at the faraway Gyeonggido range in the 17th Asian Games on Thursday, the seventh medal in the discipline gained by the country so far.
However, for the second successive day India drew a blank at the nearby Ongnyeon pistol and rifle range where hot shot Gagan Narang made his appearance and flopped individually as well as collectively with his team-mates in 50m rifle prone event.
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Pistol shooters Gurpreet Singh, Mahaveer Singh and seasoned Samaresh Jung too disappointed.
Had it not been for the bronze won by the double trap women’s trio of Shagun Chowdhary, Shreyasi Singh and Varsha Varman, the shooting events would have ended for the day without a medal.
Their combined effort fetched them a score of 279, which was far behind gold medal winners and world record setters China’s 315 or silver medal winners Korea’s 324.
Earlier, there was a medal drought at the nearby shooting range. Gagan Narang failed to live up to his reputation after starting off with a bang – two 10.8s in the 50m rifle prone qualification – before going off target and finishing with a disappointing score of 618.4, which could get him only the 14th place out of 52 starters.
Joydeep Karmakar, shot much better and ended up 10th with 621.2 while the third Indian in fray – Hariom Singh – proved out of depth and gained the 29th slot with 613.2.
Karmakar later said that the last five shots proved to be his undoing. “The last few shots made the difference. For 25 years in shooting I was inhaling (when pressing the trigger) and now I am exhaling.
“I am still not fully comfortable, but am sure will feel confident in due course of time. This is the best technique adopted by the world over,” said the 35-year-old Bengal shooter.
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