Rashtriya Pioneer Pride: Saurabh clinched Gold for India

Saurabh clinched Gold for India
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Dilip Thakur on 21/08/2018 14:37:00

Abhishek settled for Bronze medal

Palembang : Teenager Saurabh Chaudhary clinched India's first shooting gold of
the 18th Asian Games, fetching the top honours in the men's 10m air pistol event
here today.
The 16-year-old Saurabh, who topped the qualifying round, shot a Games record
score of 240.7 to pip Japan's Tomoyuki Matsuda (239.7) in an exciting final to
add a gold to India's shooting tally of two silver and a bronze this Asiad.
Shooter Abhishek Verma, also making his Asian Games debut at 29, settled for the
bronze medal in the same event with a score of 219.3.
In second position for most of the final, Saurabh grabbed the lead after Matsuda
fired 8.9 in his penultimate shot. The Indian went ahead with a 10.2 off his
second-last shot and held the nerve to stay ahead.