India won bronze medals in both the men’s and women’s skeet team events at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on September 23. The women’s team secured India’s first-ever Asian Games medal in the women’s skeet team event.
Raiza Dhillon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Maheshwari Chauhan finished third in the women’s competition with a combined score of 331. Raiza and Parinaaz each recorded 111 hits out of 125, while Maheshwari contributed 109. China won gold with 357, while Kazakhstan took silver with 336.
The men’s team consisted of Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Bhavtegh Singh Gill. They finished level with Kazakhstan on 346 points before winning the shoot-off to secure third place. China and Kazakhstan finished ahead of India in the event.
Naruka also qualified for the men’s individual skeet final after recording 119 hits in qualification. In the women’s individual event, Dhillon and Dhaliwal reached the final after both finished qualification with 111 hits. Maheshwari missed the individual final with 109.
Dhillon finished fourth in the women’s individual final, while Dhaliwal placed eighth. China’s Jiang Yiting won the individual gold, setting an Asian and Asian Games record with 35 hits.
The two team bronzes added to India’s shooting medal tally at the Games, with the country also collecting medals in rifle events earlier in the competition.
