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Elavenil Valarivan Wins 10m Air Rifle Gold as India Extend Lead at Asian Shooting Championship

Record-breaking juniors showcase the depth powering India’s lead.

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Overview

  • Elavenil Valarivan topped the women’s 10m air rifle final with 253.6, her second Asian title, finishing ahead of China’s Xinlu Peng and Korea’s Eunji Kwon, with one report citing an Asian finals record.
  • Mehuli Ghosh placed fourth in the final, and with Valarivan and Ananya Naidu secured the women’s team bronze on a 1891 total behind China and Korea.
  • India’s junior women’s 10m air rifle team of Shambhavi Kshirsagar, Hrudya Sri Kondur and Isha Anil Taksale won gold with a 1896.2 total that set junior world and Asian records.
  • A day earlier, Abhinav Shaw won junior men’s 10m air rifle gold after leading a trio with Naraen Pranav and Himanshu to an Asian and junior world record team score of 1890.1.
  • Shotgun results bolstered the tally with a senior skeet mixed-team bronze for Abhay Singh Sekhon and Ganemat Sekhon and a junior skeet mixed-team gold for Harmehar Singh Lally and Yashasvi Rathore over Kazakhstan.