Asian Games: Indian shooters continue to disappoint
By IANSWednesday, November 17, 2010
GUNAGZHOU - Indian shooters continued to disappoint on the fifth day of the shooting competition of the Asian Games here Wednesday.
In the men’s 25 metres standard pistol event, Samresh Jung finished seventh with a score of 569 points. The individual gold went to South Korea’s Hong Seong-Hwan (575) and the silver was won by North Korea’s Kim Jong Su (573). China’s Jin Yongde (570) settled for a bronze after a shoot-off, in which he shot 48.
South Korean trio of Seong-Hwan, Jang Dae-Kyu and Hwang Yoon-Sam won the team gold with 1,708 points while China won the silver with 1,707. North Korea bagged the bronze with 1,690 and India finished fourth with 1,668.
In the women’s 50 metres rifle three position event, India’s Tejaswini Sawant (569) finished 23rd while Lajja Goswami (569) was 24th. Sawant was 23rd on the basis of better perfect 10s. Chetanpreet Kaur (559) was 31st.
The individual gold went to China’s Chengyi Wang with a score of 584 points and Iran’s Elaheh Ahmadi got the silver with 582. The bronze went to Liuxi Wu with 578 points.
China won the team gold after the trio of Wang Chengyi, Wu Liuxi and Yi Siling shot a combined tally of 1,733 ahead of second-placed South Korea, who finished on 1,728. Iran took the bronze with 1,719.
