Indian women shoot gold

KUALA LUMPUR, JAN 29: India won the team gold in the women's 50-metre sport rifle prone event in the Asian Shooting Championship here on S...

KUALA LUMPUR, JAN 29: India won the team gold in the women’s 50-metre sport rifle prone event in the Asian Shooting Championship here on Saturday, with Anjali Vedpathak also winning an individual silver.

Anjali, Kuheli Gangulee and Roopa Unnikrishnan shot 1,749 points to pip Uzbekistan to the gold medal by just one point. Japan won the bronze with 1,740 points.

In the individual final, Anjali was beaten to the gold by Japan’s Yoko Minamoto. Alyona Aksyonova of Uzbekistan took the bronze.

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Chinese women took the spotlight with two world records. Zhang Yanli snatched the individual gold in a world record of 381 points and then partnered Zhang Yi and Qiu Wei to clinch team gold, with a world mark.

The records might not be ratified by the world shooting body because the events did not have the required participation. International regulations state that every event must have at least five entries for records to be recognised.

Yi took the individual silver with 380 points, which also surpassed theprevious world record.