Indian shooters put up a dismal show in Guangzhou
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Guangzhou: Indian shooters put up a dismal show on another windy day as they drew a blank for the third day in running with only pistol expert and Melbourne Commonwealth Games hero Samaresh Jung coming up with something notable in the Asian Games today.
Bespectacled Jung, who earned the nickname 'Goldfinger' after grabbing a record five gold medals four years ago in Melbourne missed the men's 25m standard pistol shoot-off for the bronze by one point in a straight final to finish 7th overall with 569 points from amongst 39 shooters.
But his two other teammates, Pemba Tamang and Chandrahas Chaudhary, performed very poorly, shooting only 550 and 549 out of 600 to end up 22nd and 23rd respectively and the combined effort cost India a team medal too as they finished fourth with 1668 points, well behind bronze winners North Korea's 1690, from eleven contestants.
World women's prone position champion Tejaswini Sawant too put up a disappointing display and brought up the rear, finishing 23rd out of 45 shooters with a shocking 569 points in the women's 3-position rifle event.
Her teammate Lajjakumari Gauswami ended up a rung below her with the same score and Chetenpreet Kaur Nilon secured the 31st spot with 559.
The Indian squad ended up a shocking 9th out of 12 competing teams with 1697 points. China won the gold wth 1733, South Korea the silver with 1728 and the bronze was claimed by Iran (1719).
In the 25m pistol event, Jung fired 569 out of 600, an improvement of ten points from his performance in last month's Commonwealth Games in Delhi, with 13 scores of ten but missed the cut off for the third-place play-off by one point with four others logging 570. He finished seventh overall.
Jung logged 194, 189 and 186 in the 150 second, 20 second and ten second stages respectively -– the best being the longer one in which he fired 96 and 98 in the series of two shots.
The faster he had to shoot, the farther he shot off the target.
In the four-way shoot-off, China's Jin Yongde won the bronze while the gold and silver went to South Korea's Hong Seonghwan (575 with 20 tens) and North Korea's (573 with 14 tens).
Jung's teammates Pemba Tamang were way off target to log 188, 187 and 175 and 185, 190 and 174 respectively. They were especially off target in the ten-second shots.
In the women's rifle event, Tejaswini shot 98 and 98 in the prone event which fetched her the world championship title in Munich in August.
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