Kaur’s golden double for India

Olympian Sift Kaur Samra pulled off an incredible show, clinching the individual women’s 50m rifle 3 positions gold and helping the country to the team title as well in the Asian Shooting Championships here Tuesday.

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The 23-year-old world record holder fired a superb 459.2 in the final to beat China’s Yang Yujie (458.8) for gold, and the trio of Samra, stalwart Anjum Moudgil and Ashi Chouksey also bagged the top podium in the team event with an aggregate of 1758 points.

India are placed second on the charts with 20 medals, nine of them gold. China are leading the table with 24 medals, including 13 gold.

This was Samra’s fourth Asian Championships gold, and she was in a different zone altogether in the event as she qualified for the eight shooter final placed No 1 with a score of 589, Another Indian, Shriyanka Sadandi, who had topped the qualification round was not eligible for the final as she was competing for ‘Ranking Points Only’ (RPO).

RPO shooters cannot compete for medals.