India gained a historic Gold medal on the Asian Games on Tuesday, September 26 because the the Dressage Team completed on high step of the rostrum, bagging the nation’s first yellow steel in Equestrian after 41 years. On the opposite hand, India added to their medal tally with two extra crusing medals.
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The chess motion (Round 5, 6 and seven) will proceed in Hangzhou whereas India will even be in competition for medals in swimming and crusing.
Squash groups will start their motion in Asian Games on Tuesday as nicely. Remember, that is the golden technology of Indian squash and they’ll attempt to say goodbye with the utmost variety of medals.
Olympian Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar received the Gold in males’s 50m 3 positions to take India’s medal tally to six on the ISSF World Cup in Cairo.
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar received gold in males’s 50m rifle 3 positions in Cairo (PTI Photo)
By Press Trust of India: Olympian Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar claimed the gold medal within the males’s particular person 50m rifle 3 positions competitors on the ISSF World Cup in Cairo, Egypt on Wednesday as India continued their dominance within the match.
This was India’s sixth medal, together with 4 gold, within the match because the nation strengthened its place on the high of the medals tally.
The 22-year-old Tomar, who had additionally received a gold within the Changwon World Cup final yr, received 16-6 within the gold-medal contest to comfortably beat Austria’s Alexander Schmirl.
Tomar was positioned second within the rating spherical, with a complete rating of 406.4, whereas Schmirl was on the high with 407.9.
Earlier, the Indian had topped the qualification after aggregating 588 over the three phases of kneeling, inclined and standing.
Akhil Sheoran, one other Indian taking part within the occasion, was second within the qualification with 587.
This was the Indian’s second particular person World Cup gold, the primary coming in South Korea.
‘DETERMINED TO WIN MEDAL’
Speaking after the occasion, Tomar stated, “I had not performed well twice earlier at this range so this time I was determined to go back with a medal.”
Asked what was his mindset after a gradual begin within the rating spherical, he stated, “It did not affect me much. As I said, I was very determined and was confident that I could always come back in my favourite ‘standing’ position and that’s what happened.”
Tomar first topped the qualification spherical with a rating of 588 after 20 pictures every within the kneeling, inclined and standing positions. He had teammate Sheoran for firm within the rating spherical.
The Indian duo started gradual within the rating spherical with Tomar sixth and Sheoran eighth after the primary 5 kneeling place pictures.
After the tip of the allotted 10 pictures within the second inclined place nonetheless, each had moved up with Sheoran in second and Tomar in fifth. All the whereas the Austrian Schmirl was main the match and did so until the tip of the rating spherical.
It modified dramatically after the primary 5 standing place pictures, as India primary Tomar bought as much as second, simply 0.5 behind Schmirl who was nonetheless main.
Sheoran was right down to fifth and finally bowed out in seventh place after 30 pictures. After 40 pictures each the Austrian and the Indian held on to the highest two positions to arrange a gold medal conflict.
In the gold medal spherical, which is mainly a race to 16 factors with two factors being awarded to the winner of every single-shot sequence, Tomar took the primary sequence.
However, it remained tight with the scores studying 4-4 after which 6-6 earlier than the Indian broke away with some sensational taking pictures to shut out the match.
A timeout taken by the Austrian at 6-12 did nothing to interrupt Tomar’s momentum.
RHYTHM MISSES MEDAL ROUND
In the day’s first medal occasion, India’s Rhythm Sangwan, who had certified for the rating rounds after taking pictures 589 within the ladies’s 25m pistol, couldn’t make the ultimate 4 medal spherical.
She had shot 295 to steer the primary precision spherical on Tuesday after which 294 within the rapid-fire spherical to qualify second behind Doreen Vennekamp of Germany.
Rhythm bowed out within the second rating spherical match, ending fourth with 9 hits out of 20. Hungary’s Veronika Major received gold within the occasion.
Manu Bhaker and Esha Singh shot 571 and 570 to complete thirty second and thirty fourth respectively.
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Feb 22, 2023
Munkhbayar Dorjsuren regarded like she may barely watch. The battle to assert the bronze medal within the males’s 10m air pistol occasion on the ISSF Cairo World Cup had boiled right down to a single shot. It was a winner-takes-all shoot-off between two of Dorjsuren’s wards within the Indian capturing staff: 21-year-old Sarabjot Singh and 19-year-old Varun Tomar.
They had jockeyed for the final medal spot all through the rating match – with Sarabjot in third after 10 photographs, Tomar leapfrogging him by the fifteenth, earlier than being deadlocked at 250.6 after 25 photographs to determine the bronze medal. In one shot, one of many two would take house India’s first medal on the Cairo World Cup whereas the opposite would return empty-handed.
Eventually, it was Tomar’s 10.3 that helped him pip his senior compatriot by a margin of 0.2.
“He’s very sorted and focused. He knows what he wants to do, and goes about it without being too excited or jumpy. It’s almost like he’s going in slow motion. He’s very relaxed,” mentioned Samresh Jung, who’s in Cairo as coach of the Indian pistol contingent.
To illustrate simply how centered on the job Tomar may be, Jung mentioned that he had hardly ever seen the 19-year-old on his cellphone.
“The first time I met him was around two years back, when he was a junior shooter. He was just the same then as he is now – serious, straightforward. He’s not at all like other teenagers,” the a number of Commonwealth Games gold medallist mentioned.
His evaluation of Tomar inevitably introduced up comparisons with one other younger shooter who had taken Indian capturing by storm within the final Olympic cycle: Saurabh Chaudhary, the one Indian marksman to make the finals on the Tokyo Olympics, who occurs to be his cousin, and the explanation he began capturing within the first place.
“Saurabh bhaiya was the first one to start shooting in our family. He is my bua’s (father’s sister’s) son. It was only after seeing his success that my family pushed me to take up shooting,” Tomar instructed The Indian Express from Cairo.
Just like Chaudhary, Tomar began coaching beneath Amit Sheoran. Currently, he doesn’t have a private coach and trains at a spread at house.
Just like his elder cousin, Tomar was unflappable all through the ultimate on Sunday, regardless of being the youngest shooter in a really younger eight-man area. Even after he had secured the medal, he made his solution to his seat beside Dorjsuren with not even the ghost of a smile.
“That’s how he is, very serious. In fact, just before the final, we were urging him to smile at least when the camera was on him,” mentioned Jung.
Jung missed the medal ceremony for the lads’s 10m air pistol occasion as a result of he needed to go for the ladies’s 10m air pistol ultimate. But he hoped no less than on the rostrum, Tomar had managed to crack a smile.
But as a number of photographs of Tomar on the rostrum confirmed, these exhortations and hopes of the coaches had fallen on deaf ears.
Manu fifth in 10m air pistol
Tokyo Olympian Manu Bhaker completed in fifth spot whereas Divya Thadigol ended seventh within the ladies’s 10m air pistol occasion on Sunday. Having shot 572 in qualifying, Manu had nearly sneaked into the eight-woman finals, being tied with 4 different shooters. Divya, in the meantime, had certified in second place with a rating of 576.
In the ultimate although, a woeful third sequence of 46.7 noticed 27-year-old Divya being eradicated in seventh spot. Manu’s problem lasted 5 extra photographs, after which she bowed out in fifth spot.
Despite qualifying in eighth spot, Veronika Major of Hungary claimed the gold medal, overcoming Serbia’s Zorana Arunovic in a lopsided ultimate. Olympic medallist Anna Korakaki of Greece claimed bronze.
Pistol ace Manu Bhaker shot a double gold, claiming each the ladies’s and junior girls’s 10m air pistol titles on the twentieth Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting occasion right here on Friday.
The 20-year-old from Haryana shot 263.9 to outclass her opponents within the eight-women semi-final occasion.
Compatriot Arshdeep Kaur had a neck-and-neck combat with Manu and even adopted her to the gold medal contest.
However, Manu, a former world primary, outshot Kaur 16-14 in a intently fought ultimate contest.
Kaur completed second with a rating of 260.5 to bag the silver medal, whereas Haryana’s Radhika Tanwar received the bronze.
In the junior girls’s occasion, Manu was as soon as once more in a league of her personal as she claimed the highest place with a rating of 249.
It was Uttar Pradesh’s Yuvika Tomar, who was the most effective shooter all-around in qualifying, topping each the ladies’s and junior girls’s qualifiers with a rating of 584.
However, Manu was too good for her, sealing the ultimate 16-12.
The second and third positions have been claimed by Yuvika Tomar of Uttar Pradesh and Lakshita of Haryana, who scored 252.7 and 246.7 respectively.
Shikha Narwal received within the youth class the place Lakshita picked up the silver.
Yuvika did win gold on the day although, teaming up with Anjali Chaudhary and Devanshi Dhama to seal the staff title for UP.
Haryana received silver, whereas Maharashtra claimed the bronze medal.
The Haryana duo of Manu Bhaker and Shiva Narwal received the 10m air pistol combined group title on the twentieth Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting competitors on Sunday. They beat the skilled pair of Amanpreet Singh and Shweta Singh of ONGC 16-8 within the gold medal match.
Esha Singh of Telangana, who had received the person girls’s 10m air pistol title on Saturday, claimed two bronze medals on the day. She teamed up with Kaushik Gopu to win bronze in each the senior and junior combined group competitions.
At the Dr Karni Singh Shooting vary in New Delhi, Meena Kumari saved the Haryana domination going with a victory within the girls’s 50m rifle inclined occasion. She shot a rating of 620.2 to beat Mahit Sandhu of Chandigarh who notched 619.9 after 60 photographs.
Mahit received the junior crown within the occasion.
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Indian shooters continued to dominate the proceedings on the ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany, successful 4 extra gold medals within the girls’s and males’s air rifle and air pistol crew occasions on Friday.
India’s tally at the moment stands at 14 medals, together with eight gold and 6 silver.
Australia, France, Poland and Bulgaria have received the opposite 4 gold medals on provide.
India’s gold rush on Friday started when the boys’s 10m air rifle trio of Rudrankksh Patil, Paarth Makhija and Umamahesh Maddineni beat Spain’s Jesus Oviedo, Adrian Diaz and Jorge Estevez 16-8 within the gold medal match.
It was a second gold within the competitors for each Rudrankksh and Paarth, who had received the person males’s 10m air rifle and the combined crew rifle competitions earlier respectively.
It was then the flip of the junior girls’s 10m air pistol crew of Manu Bhaker, Palak and Esha Singh who outplayed Georgians Salome Prodiashvili, Mariam Abramishvili and Mariami Prodiashvili by the identical 16-8 margin.
Then the air rifle girls’s crew consisting of Arya Borse, Zeena Khitta and Ramita downed the Korean trio of Yeeun AN, Eunji Kwon and Jeongin Jang 17-9 within the title decider to provide India the third gold of the day.
Finally, the boys’s air pistol crew of Saurabh Chaudhary, Shiva Narwal and Sarabjot Singh outclassed Uzbekistan’s Mukhammad Kamalov, Veniamin Nikitin and Umidbek Komolbekov 17-9 to clinch India’s fourth gold of the day.
India have additionally reached the gold medal spherical of the boys’s and ladies’s lure crew competitions, assuring themselves of two extra silver medals on the very least.
Shardul Vihan, Arya Vansh Tyagi and Vivaan Kapoor will conflict with the US trio of Patrick Thompson, Ernest Carvahlo and Christian Kutz later within the day for the junior males’s lure crew title.
Then India’s Preeti Rajak, Sabeera Haris and Bhavya Tripathi shall be up in opposition to the Italian trio of Marika Patera, Sofia Gori and Sofia Littame within the girls’s lure crew gold medal contest.
It’s been 4 months since capturing ace Manu Bhaker returned from the Tokyo Olympics, the place a spot within the finals eluded her within the three occasions she took half in. But the 19-year-old, who was thought of a favorite to medal on the Games, is but to beat the demons of the Tokyo disappointment.
“I am still dealing with it. It’s still in the process,” the 2018 Youth Olympic gold medallist advised The Indian Express earlier than leaving for the President’s Cup in Wroclaw, Poland.
In the run-up to the Olympics, Manu had proven nice promise bagging golds at a number of World Cup occasions however had discovered the mega occasion a step too excessive. The stress, she says, was in contrast to another competitors she took half in.
“It was the first time I felt so much pressure. I couldn’t sleep during the night. It was a rollercoaster. Unexpected, of course. I couldn’t deliver as well as I expected. I was very disappointed. During the day too I was feeling anxious and chaotic. Anxious because of the competition. Things didn’t go my way,” says the Haryana athlete.
Manu’s debut Games marketing campaign took off on the incorrect foot along with her rifle malfunctioning throughout her second collection within the 10m air pistol occasion. What began as a minor glitch within the lever of the pistol, ultimately compelled Manu to exchange the entire circuit and left her preventing towards time. Manu completed twelfth within the qualification spherical the place solely the highest eight progress to the finals.
“When I fixed the lever and adjusted the grip and I inserted the circuit, it stopped working. So it was like a double problem. I was blank. I wasn’t expecting so many problems in an air pistol. I changed the circuit as well and went into my lane and I asked for sighters. I had thought of switching the pistol itself but the organisers’ system couldn’t get the sighting mode on the computer. My time was going (lapsing) so I had to shoot. I had no option,” Manu defined.
Manu was so distraught that she went again to her room and broke down. “I cannot explain. I am not expressive about my feelings. I was sad and disheartened. I did not sleep that night. Is that even a question? It’s obvious (I broke down). Of course,” mentioned the teen who has received greater than two dozen worldwide medals, most of them being gold.
The Tokyo debacle, as anticipated, drew quite a lot of warmth from followers on social media. The critics had a free go on the shooters, particularly Manu, who couldn’t meet the excessive expectations of determined followers from the Games. But Manu was unfazed since she has all the time tried to maintain off from social media. As far as the tough criticism is anxious Manu feels it’s half and parcel of an athlete’s life.
“That’s (the criticism) fine. People appreciate me also. Certain people will try to pull you down no matter what. And likewise there will be so many who stand beside no matter what. It’s what side I see,” feels Manu.
Busting stress in Kerala vacay
Post Olympics Manu took a much-needed break from the game and took a small household trip to Kerala. The break helped her break the monotony of competing and coaching – one thing Manu has been incessantly doing for the final 5 years. The break additionally helped ease sure stiffness the teen was feeling in her shoulders, arms and again because of the workload.
“The idea was to sort of come out of the shooting zone. I was continuously shooting for five years in a row and I never took a break or an off. Even during the lockdowns, I was training constantly at my home. I never missed my physical or training sessions. I was undergoing some muscle stiffness also. The vacation was necessary and relieving,” she says.
The break and recalibration appear to be working for Manu as she has been on a medal spree in her competitions post-Tokyo. At final month’s Jr Worlds in Lima, Peru she bagged 4 golds and a bronze. At the President’s Cup, Manu bagged her second gold (25m Rapid Fire Pistol Mixed staff) on Tuesday simply a few days after bagging gold within the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team occasion.
Manu although feels the current medal rush submit Games received’t act like a balm for Tokyo. “The Olympics is different. The setbacks also feel different for every competition. You cannot balance it out. It’s not like you win in a new competition, and it evens out the loss you faced in the previous event,” says Manu.The Olympics damage will most likely stick with Manu for a bit longer however she is able to wait it out patiently till her subsequent shot. “Waqt se pehle, aur kismat se zyada kuch nahi milta,” (you don’t acquire something earlier than the fitting time and above what’s pre-destined), she says philosophically, sounding all grown-up.
India’s Rahi Sarnobat and Manu Bhaker certified for the finals within the girls’s 25m pistol occasion on competitors day 5 of the continued International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) President’s Cup right here on Monday.
Both the Olympians shot equivalent scores of 583 in qualification, however Rahi took fourth place forward of Manu’s fifth on greater interior 10s.
The eight-shooter ultimate is scheduled on Wednesday.
It was triple delight for Bhaker as she additionally certified for the gold medal match within the 25m fast fireplace combined staff Pistol occasion, assuring her of at the very least a silver so as to add to the gold she gained with Iran’s Javad Foroughi within the 10m air pistol combined staff occasion.
Bhaker partnered Turkey’s Ozgur Varlik to first make the second qualification stage of eight pairs after which completed second to the Chinese/Estonian mix of Xiao Jiaruixuan and Peeter Olesk to make the gold medal spherical. That ultimate may even happen on Wednesday.
Among the opposite Indians on present on Monday, Chinki Yadav completed ninth in girls’s 25m pistol occasion with a rating of 578, whereas Anjum Moudgil ended ninth within the girls’s 50m rifle 3 positions with an effort of 584.
The inaugural ISSF President’s Cup is a rechristened model of the ISSF World Cup Finals, the place the 12 months’s prime 12 shooters in line with world rating are invited to find out one of the best particular person athletes of the 12 months within the respective Olympic occasions.
Individual winners shall be awarded The Golden Target together with prize cash. Cash awards may even be given to all of the shooters within the particular person competitions.
Continuing their spectacular run, the Indian duo of Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker clinched the silver medal within the 10m air pistol combined workforce occasion on the ISSF Shooting World Cup right here on Saturday.
Already assured of a silver, the Indian duo was on par with Russia’s Vitalina Batsarashkina and Artem Chernousov at 12-12 earlier than dropping the final two collection to go down 12-16.
Representing the opposite Indian workforce in the identical occasion, Yashaswini Singh Deswal and Abhishek Verma missed out on a bronze medal.
Deswal and Verma, who certified within the third place, have been utterly outplayed by Iran’s Golnoush Sebghatollahi and Javad Foroughi, dropping 7-17 within the bronze play-off.
It was a foul day within the workplace for the Indian rifle shooters, competing within the 10m air combined occasion.
Both groups failed to achieve the ultimate. The pairing of Elavenil Valarivan and Divyansh Singh Panwar managed to achieve the second qualification spherical, ending sixth with a complete of 416.1.
The duo of Anjum Moudgil and Deepak Kumar didn’t clear the primary qualifying spherical. They completed a disappointing fifteenth with a complete 624.6.
Chaudhary and Bhaker’s silver takes India’s medal depend to a few. Both shooters have already received a bronze every.
While Chaudhary had picked a bronze medal in males’s 10m air pistol on the opening day, Bhaker alongside Deswal and Rahi Sarnobat had received the bronze within the 10m air pistol girls’s workforce occasion.
Russia at present leads the medal tally with three golds as many silver and one bronze.
The occasion is Indian capturing workforce’s closing aggressive outing earlier than the Tokyo Olympics.