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Indian 10m air rifle team clinches gold with world record score

Hangzhou: Indian shooters Rudrankksh Patil (R) and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (2nd R) and Divyansh Singh Panwar with coach and support staff after shooting down gold in team event with a world record score in men's 10m Air Rifle event at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023.
Hangzhou: Indian shooters Rudrankksh Patil (R) and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (2nd R) and Divyansh Singh Panwar with coach and support staff after shooting down gold in team event with a world record score in men's 10m Air Rifle event at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023.

Hangzhou: The Indian men's 10m air rifle team shot down gold with a world record score on the second day of shooting competition at the Asian Games here on Monday.

The team of world champion Rudrankksh Patil, Olympian Divyansh Panwar and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar aggregated 1893.7 in the qualification round to better the world record of 1893.3 set by the Chinese set less than a month back at the World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Rudrankksh shot 632.5, Tomar 631.6 and Panwar 629.6 to aggregate the world record score.

South Korea clinched the silver with an aggregate of 1890.1, while China won the bronze with a score of 1888.2. PTI 

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