The Indian men’s and women’s skeet shooting teams picked up bronze medals but individual podiums eluded them as two of the three in final finished fourth in the Asian Games here on Wednesday.
After three days of qualification rounds, the Indian trio of Raiza Dhillon, Maheshwari Chauhan and Parinaaz Dhaliwal finished with a combined score of 331 to finish third behind gold medallists China (357) and Kazakhstan (336) in the women’s team event. It was the first ever Asian Games medal in the women’s team skeet event for India.
Raiza and Parinaaz also made the individual finals but could not fetch a podium finish. While Raiza ended fourth after firing a score of 23, Parinaaz finished bottom of the heap with a total of 8.
In the men’s competition, Anantjeet Singh Naruka (119), veteran Mairaj Ahmad Khan (116) and Bhavtegh Singh Gill (111) snared the men’s team bronze with a total score of 346.
Of the three, Asian Championships gold-medallist Anantjeet, who was also a silver-winner at the
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