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Asian Games 2023: Shooters must do better, says NRAI High Performance Director
Updated On: 28 September, 2023 07:34 AM IST | Hangzhou | Ashwin Ferro
The fact that gold-winner Al-Rashidi, 60, hasn’t lost that spot since the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games and Al-Attiya, 52, who won bronze, is also a two-time Asiad and Olympic medallist, could well have played on Naruka’s mind
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NRAI High Performance Director Pierre Beauchamp at the Fuyan Yinhu Sports Centre in Hangzhou. Pic/Ashwin Ferro
Skeet shooter Anant Jeet Singh Naruka, 25, was holding on to the joint lead with Kuwait’s Abdullah Al-Rashidi and was chased by Qatar’s Nasser Al-Attiya right up to the 43rd shot in the 60-shot final. Then the young Indian missed one shot and moments later, a second, to eventually win the silver medal.
The fact that gold-winner Al-Rashidi, 60, hasn’t lost that spot since the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games and Al-Attiya, 52, who won bronze, is also a two-time Asiad and Olympic medallist, could well have played on Naruka’s mind.
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