Saturday, October 05, 2024
Advertisement
  1. You Are At:
  2. News
  3. Sports
  4. Cricket
  5. Manu Bhaker-Saurabh Chaudhary pair smashes world record for mixed team gold at Asian Championship

Manu Bhaker-Saurabh Chaudhary pair smashes world record for mixed team gold at Asian Championship

Their feat came exactly a month after they won the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup stage gold in the same event in Delhi. 

Reported by: PTI New Delhi Published on: March 27, 2019 15:39 IST
Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary
Image Source : PTI

File photo of Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary

Teenage Indian shooting stars Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary smashed the qualification world record before clinching the 10m air pistol mixed team gold in the 12th Asian Airgun Championship in Taoyuan, Taipei on Wednesday.

Their feat came exactly a month after they won the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup stage gold in the same event in Delhi. 

The 17-year-old Manu and 16-year-old Saurabh shot a combined score of 784 in the qualification round, breaking the record set by Russians Vitalina Batsarashkina and Artem Chernousov at the European Championships five days ago.

The Indians then went on to win the five-team final with a score of 484.8.

Hwang Seongeun and Kim Mose of Korea won the silver with a score of 481.1 while Wu Chia Ying and Kou Kuan-Ting claimed the bronze for the host country with a score of 413.3.

A second Indian team comprising of Anuradha and Abhishek Verma also reached the finals and finished fourth with a score of 372.1, the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) said in a statement here.

Advertisement

Read all the Breaking News Live on indiatvnews.com and Get Latest English News & Updates from Sports and Cricket Section

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement