Asian Games: Ramita, Mehuli, Aashi won silver medal in women’s 10 meter air rifle

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Hangzhou. India began its campaign in the Asian Games shooting competitions with a silver medal in the women’s 10m air rifle team event. The trio of Ramita, Aashi Choukse and Mehuli Ghosh stood second with 1886.0 points.

The Indian team finished second behind China, with a total score of 1896.6. While Mongolia stood third with 1880.0.

Ramita scored the best score of 631.9. Whereas, Mehuli played her role in the victory with 630.0 and Aashi with 623.3 marks.

At the end of the first round of 10 shots, the Indians’ score was 312.1. China was ahead with 316.2.

All three Indians performed brilliantly in the second round, scoring 316.9 points, with Ramita scoring the highest with 106.7. Mehuli scored 105.7 while Aashi was a little behind with 104.5.

This trend continued in the next four rounds as the Indians kept hitting shots and Ramita made her best score.

The Chinese trio finished with an Asian record score and won the gold medal.

In the individual competition, Ramita and Mehuli made it to the finals with scores of 631.9 and 630.8 respectively.

Ramita was placed second behind China’s Jiayu Han, while Mehuli finished fifth.

Two Chinese shooters Yuting Huang and Zilin Wang finished third and fourth respectively.

It is clear that the competition for the gold medal will be between the Chinese and the Indians unless one of them misses out.
IANS

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