The Indian women shooters clinched the team bronze in double trap while the men's team narrowly missed out on another one finishing fourth in the 50 metre rifle prone event of the 17th Asian Games at the Gyeonggido Shooting Range here Thursday.
The men's 25 metre pistol team finished fifth and the men's double trap team was sixth. The bronze was India's seventh medal - one gold and six bronze - from the shooting range.
In women's double trap, the Indian trio of Shagun Chowdhary, Shreyasi Singh and Varsha Varman shot 279 to claim third place behind China and South Korea, who clinched gold and silver, respectively. Shagun fired 96 with scores of 24, 25, 24, 23 while Shreyasi added 94 points with shots of 24, 22, 22, 26.
Varsha contributed 89 points with scores of 23, 21, 24, 21 which helped India finish ahead of fourth-placed Chinese Taipei, who scored 268 points.
The gold went to Chinese team of Yafei Zhang, Yiting Bai and Mei Zhu, who shot a combined 315, one point more than the South Korean team of Mijin Kim, Hyekyoung Son and Bona Lee.
However, none of the Indian women managed to finish on the podium in the individual event with Shagun, Shreyasi and Varsha, taking eighth, 10th and 12th positions, respectively. South Korea's Mijin shot a world record score of 110 to win gold while Chinese Yafei and Yiting won silver and bronze.
In 50m rifle prone, the men's team could only manage a fourth-place finish. The Indian team of Joydeep Karmakar, London Olympic bronze medallist Gagan Narang, and Hariom Singh shot 1852.8-98x to take fourth position.
However, the Indians failed to qualify for the final in the individual event as Karmakar, Narang and Hariom finished 10th, 14th and 29th, respectively.
Karmakar scored 621.2-39x while Narang came up with a score of 618.4-31x. Hariom also struggled to get going as he fired a poor 613.2-27x.
The team gold went to Chinese trio of Shengbo Zhao, Xing Lan and Gang Liu, who broke the world record with a combined score of 1,876-130x, surpassing the previous record of 1873.6 set by France at the European championships in Croatia last year. South Korea won the silver medal with 1869-120x and Kazakhstan picked up the bronze with 1859-102x.
The Indian men's team finished fifth in the 25 metre standard pistol event. The team comprising Gurpreet Singh, Mahaveer Singh and Samresh Jung scored 1684-34x as they faltered in the individual event as well.
Gurpreet took fifth position in the individual event with 570-14x while Mahaveer was 17th with 559-13x. Veteran shooter Jung finished 24th with 555-10x.
The team gold went to Chinese trio of Feng Ding, Youngde Jin and Chuanlin Li, who fired a combined score of 1710-44x. Feng Ding also won the individual gold. South Korea and Singapore won team silver and bronze, respectively.
In men's double trap, the trio of Ankur Mittal (136), Sangram Dahiya (131) and Mohammed Ashab (131) shot a total of 398 as India finished fifth. In a well-contested team final, Qatar, China and Kuwait finished with 404 points each but an aggregate of 84 points in the fifth round gave Qatar the gold. China's fifth round score was 83 and they took the silver and Kuwait, who had 81, settled for the bronze.
China Hu Binyuan won the individual gold beating Fehaid Aldeehani of Kuwait in the final and Juma Al-Makhtoum of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) took the bronze.
