Asian Games silver medalist Deepak Kumar made it a memorable 32nd birthday for himself, by clinching India’s tenth Olympic quota in shooting for Tokyo 2020, with a bronze medal in men’s air rifle in the Asian championship here on Tuesday.
Deepak qualified in the third place with a score of 626.8 behind the Chinese who had already won the quota, and finished the best among the ones aspiring to seal the final Olympic quota.
Gold for Manu
Manu Bhaker shot a junior World record of 244.3 to beat Wang Qian of China by 1.5 point, in women’s air pistol.
The duo of Manisha Keer and Vivaan Kapoor won the junior mixed trap gold.
In men’s 25-metre rapid fire pistol, in which four Olympic quotas are available, Anish Bhanwala shot 288 in the first stage, to be sixth. There were three Chinese ahead of him, and China has already won two Olympic quota. A Korean and a Japanese are also ahead of Anish. Bhavesh Shekhawat (287) and Adarsh Singh (285) also followed Anish, and everyone stands a chance if they shoot well in the second stage.
The results: Men: 10m air rifle: 1. Liu Yukun (Chn) 250.5 (629.0); 2. Yu Haonan (Chn) 249.1 (626.4); 3. Deepak Kumar 227.8 (626.8); 14. Kiran Jadhav 623.7; 30. Yash Vardhan 619.1. MQS: Divyansh Singh Panwar 626.8; Sanjeev Rajput 626.5. Team: 1. China 1881.9; 2. Korea 1877.9; 3. Iran 1872.6; 5. India 1869.6.
Women: 10m air rifle: 1. Yang Qian (Chn) 251.6 (628.6); 2. Tessa Neo (Sgp) 251.4 (627.9); 3. Jung Eunhea (Kor) 228.9 (632.2); 5. Elavenil Valarivan 187.1 (629.0); 9. Anjum Moudgil 627.6; 12. Apurvi Chandela 626.6. MQS: Mehuli Ghosh 628.6. Team: 1. Korea 1891.7; 2. India 1883.2; 3. Iran 1877.6.
10m air pistol: 1. Manu Bhaker 244.3 (WRJ) 584 WRJ; 2. Wang Qian (Chn) 242.8 (583); 3. Jiang Ranxin (Chn) 220.2 (576); 6. Yashaswini Singh Deswal 157.4 (578); 20. Annu Raj Singh 569.
Team: 1. Korea 1736; 2. China 1733; 3. India 1731.
Mixed trap juniors: 1. India (Manisha Keer, Vivaan Kapoor) 34 (138); 2. China 29 (139); 3. China-A 31 (132); 4. Lebanon 30 (133); 5. India-A (Preeti Rajak, Bhowneesh Mendiratta) 128 .
