Shooting: Rudrankksh, Mehuli combine to win gold in Asian Olympic Qualifiers

The pair of Rudrankksh Patil and Mehuli Ghosh won the 10m air rifle mixed team event to maintain the Indian shooting contingents dominance in the Asian Olympic Qualifiers here on TuesdayRudrankksh and Mehuli triumphed after prevailing over Chinas Shen Yufan and Zhu Mingshuai 1610 in the final In the 10m air pistol mixed team event however India settled for the silver medal with the duo of Arjun Cheema and Rhythm Sangwan finishing second behind Vietnams Thu Vinh Trinh and Quang Huy Pham in the battle for the top prize They lost 1117Also ReadSouth Africas spinner Keshav Maharaj expresses views on Ram Siya Ram songThe team of Rhythm and Arjun topped the qualification round with a total score of 582 finishing ahead of the secondplaced combo 580 from Vietnam but they could not get the better of their opponents when it mattered the most Earlier in the day the pair of Rudrankksh and Mehuli was second in the qualification shooting a total score of 6313 to finish behind Yufan and Mingshuai who aggregated 6323A second Indian pair of Elavenil Valarivan and Arjun Babuta finished sixth overall with a score of 6290 In the mixed team pistol event the first series was tied and the two pairs split pointsA 109 by Pham in the next gave Vietnam an early lead They would go on to win the next three as well to open up a 91 gap in the race to 16Also ReadCA congratulates Perry on 300th international matchThe Indian pair of Arjun and Rhythm came back to win the sixth series and tie the seventh and eighth but Trinh and Pham won the ninth and 10th to go 155 aheadRhythm and Arjun then fought back admirably to win the next three and close the gap at 1115 but they lost the 14th series narrowly to go down 1117India also won the junior event in the mixed team air rifle discipline when Isha Anil Taksale and Ummamahesh Maddineni defeated the Chinese pairing of Chu Ziqing and Pan Bowen 1711 in the gold medal matchup In the same event the pair of Abhinav Shaw and Anvii Rathod defeated local favourites Masayyu Putri Fadillah and Paskalis Steven Farrel Saverio 1610 to claim bronzeAt the end of day two of competitions Indias tally stood at an impressive six gold two silver and two bronze for a total of 10 medalsOn Monday young Indian shooters Varun Tomar and Esha Singh secured two Olympic quota places for the country with gold medals in the mens and womens 10m Air Pistol events of the QualifiersThe duos qualification took the total number of Indian shooters bound for Paris to 15 equalling the highestever tally that was achieved in the Tokyo GamesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever