India win team bronze in 10m air pistol

Dipika, Saurav assured of two medals in squash after reaching semis

September 21, 2014 06:29 pm | Updated 06:29 pm IST - Incheon

The Indian team that won the bronze in the 10m air pistol event - (from left to right) Jitu Rai, Samaresh Jung and Prakash Papanna Nanjappa.

The Indian team that won the bronze in the 10m air pistol event - (from left to right) Jitu Rai, Samaresh Jung and Prakash Papanna Nanjappa.

Indian shooters were on target for the second successive day as they delivered a bronze medal in the men’s 10m air pistol team event, while Dipika Pallikal assured the country of its first women’s singles squash medal in the 17th Asian Games here on Sunday.

Jitu Rai who gave India the first gold medal on Saturday was again the standout performer as he guided the men’s team to the bronze medal in 10m air pistol event.

Rai’s splendid and precise shooting, that helped him garner 585 points and qualify for the medal round with the second-best score, backed up by Samaresh Jung’s 580 (who finished 9th) and Prakash Nanjappa’s 578 (14th), helped India garner 1743 points, the same as second placed China, for the bronze.

In fact, India and China were level on points and the silver was decided by the number of Xs (bullseye) in the tens in which the latter tallied one more — 65 to India’s 64. The gold was won by hosts South Korea with a combined tally of 1744.

Squash players deliver On the squash court, Dipika assured India of a maiden women’s singles squash medal, while top seed Saurav Ghosal confirmed his third successive podium finish in men’s singles after the two reached the semifinals of their respective events.

Ghosal defeated Pakistan’s Iqbal Nasir 11-6, 9-11, 11-2, 11-9 in a contest, which lasted 58 minutes.

Dipika triumphed in an all-Indian battle against senior pro Joshna Chinappa 7-11, 11-9, 11-8, 15-17, 11-9.

Wins in hockey, tennis In hockey, the men’s team hammered Sri Lanka 8-0 in their pool B match to begin their campaign in style. The tennis players were also in good form as India blanked Nepal 3-0 to sail into the quarterfinals of men’s team event.

Yuki Bhambri did not drop a game en route to a crushing 6-0, 6-0 win over Jeetendra Pariyar, after Sanam Singh posted a comfortable 6-0, 6-1 victory over Abhishek Bastola.

However, in shooting, the men’s trap trio of Mansher Singh, Manavjit Singh Sandhu and Darius Kynan Chenai flopped with all of them finishing outside the top ten.

In hockey, Rupinderpal Singh scored a hat-trick as India began their campaign impressively.

There were also goals for Danish Mujtaba, Kangujam Chinglensana Singh and Raghunath Ramachandra.

Equestrians, rowers in final round Two Indian women qualified for the final round of the equestrian dressage individual event after a creditable show in the first round at the Asian Games here today.

Shruti Vora and Nadia Haridass made the cut for the final round as one of the 15 best performers in the Intermediate 1 (first round).

Shruti, who rode on her steed Akira, came up with a total percentage score of 68.474 while Nadia, on her Toranto, scored 66.105 in the Intermediate 1 contest competed among 30 best performers in the team event held on Saturday.

Indian rowers qualified for the final round in men's eight event after they finished second in the heats on Sunday.

The Indian team, which included Bajrang Lal Takhar, Robin Ulahannan, Ranjit Singh, Sawan Kumar, Mohammad Azad and Maninder Singh, clocked 5:53.58 to cover the distance of 2000m behind the Chinese team (5:46.01).

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