Rifle Shooters Arjun, Tilottama Bag Olympic Berths With Silver Medals In Asian Championships

27.10.2023 - 14:07 sports.ndtv.com

Indian shooters Arjun Babuta and Tilottama Sen earned two Paris Olympic quota places by clinching silver medals in the men's and women's 10m air rifle events respectively, at the ongoing Asian Championships in Changwon, Korea on Friday.

The 24-year-old Babuta also helped the team which included Divyansh Singh Panwar and Hriday Hazarika to clinch the gold medal with an aggregate score of 1892.4.

Babuta became the ninth Indian shooter overall to clinch an Olympic quota place. "I don't remember the last time I was this happy.

It has been a calculated, planned team effort with all the coaches, psychologists and everyone from Pierre, Thomas and Suma (Shirur) ma'am all getting together.

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