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Asian Games: Shooter Sift Kaur Samra Bags Gold, Ashi Chouksey Gets Bronze

India's Sift Kaur Samra bagged a gold while Ashi Chouksey got a bronze medal in the women's 50 m rifle 3P individual final at the ongoing Asian Games in Hangzhou on Wednesday, giving the country a double podium finish. With the score of 469.6 points, Sift not only topped the charts to secure a gold, but also broke the world record, Asian record and the Asian Games record. The world record was held by Great Britain, the Asian record was held by China and the Asian Games record was previously held by Mongolia.

Asian Games 2023 September 27 Schedule: Indians In Action, Events And Timing

India will have multiple chances of adding to their medals tally as the athletes will take part in a number of finals on Wednesday (September 27). The day will begin with four Indian athletes in various final races in sailing - Jerome Kumar S, Vishnu Saravan, Nethra Kumanan and Chitresh Tatha. The quartet of Hriday Chheda, Anush Agarwalla, Sudipti Hajela and Divyakriit Singh will also take part in Dressage - Intermediate (individual) after they clinched the gold medal in the team event. There will be medal hopes in Wushu as well with Roshibina Devi Naorem and Rohit Jadhav in action.

Asian Games: Indian Shooters Capture Silver In Women's 50m Rifle 3P Team Event

The Indian shooting trio of Ashi Chouksey, Manini Kaushik and Sift Kaur Samra secured a silver medal for India in the women's 50 m rifle 3P team shooting event at the ongoing Asian Games in Hangzhou on Wednesday. With a score of 1754 points, India secured a silver medal at the event, falling just 19 points short of a gold medal. The gold medal went to China, who had a score of 1773 points. South Korea walked away with the silver medal with 1756 points. This is India's sixth medal in shooting.

Asian Games 2023: Indian Swimmers' Dismal Outing Continues In Hangzhou

Indian swimmers continued to disappoint in the pool with none of them managing to qualify for the finals of their respective events at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Wednesday. Olympian Maana Patel finished fifth in heat 3 and 13th overall with a timing of 1:03.55s but failed to qualify for the final of women's 100m backstroke. It turned out to be a disappointing outing for India's Nina Venkatesh as well as she finished fourth in her heat and 14th overall with a timing of 1:03.89s to crash out of the women's 100m butterfly.