Last Updated: October 31, 2023, 11:37 IST
Indian shooter Shriyanka Sadangi (X)
Shriyanka Sadangi completed fourth in the ladies’s 50m rifle 3 positions (3P) occasion on the Asian Shooting Championship to win India’s thirteenth Paris Olympics quota in taking pictures.
Shriyanka Sadangi grabbed India’s thirteenth Paris Olympics quota in taking pictures when she completed fourth in the ladies’s 50m rifle 3 positions (3P) occasion on the ongoing Asian Shooting Championship in Changwon, Korea on Tuesday.
Shriyanka shot 440.5, to bow out after the forty third shot of the 45-shot last, equally distributed between the kneeling, susceptible and standing positions.
Experienced Korean Lee Eunseo clinched the gold whereas reigning air rifle world champion Han Jiayu of China received silver. China additionally took the bronze by means of Xia Siyu.
All Indian girls shooters in the 3P competitors have been on prime of their mark from the qualification stage itself. Sift Kaur Samra, the India primary, shot 592 taking part in for rating factors solely (RPO) to soar to the highest of the sphere.
Ashi Chouksey shot 591 to take the primary qualifying spot amongst contenders and second total. Shriyanka and Ayushi Podder made the top-eight with scores of 588 and 587 respectively.
Manini Kaushik, taking pictures RPO as properly, was tenth total with a tally of 586.
Shriyanka was the most well liked off the blocks among the many three Indians in the ultimate starting with a ten.9. She was second with 51.3 after the primary 5 kneeling photographs, whereas Ayushi and Ashi have been mendacity sixth and seventh respectively.
After 10-shots, Han and Lee have been already 1-2 and on the finish of it Shriyanka had changed Ayushi in fourth, a place she would maintain until the top.
The susceptible place noticed Ashi start her transfer up whereas Shriyanka consolidated her fourth spot. Ayushi fell behind to seventh. Lee had taken over the lead from Han.
The fourth shot in the standing place was telling for each Shriyanka and Ashi as the previous shot a ten.8 whereas the latter an 8.7.
An Indian quota was confirmed after the primary 10-shots in the standing place when Korean Bae Sanghee and Ayushi bowed out in eighth and seventh respectively.
Going into the ultimate 5 single-shots in fifth and sixth positions, Shriyanka shot 10.1 to Ashi’s 9.8 as the previous confirmed the quota in her title. Arina Altukhova of Kazakhstan was out subsequent, however she too had picked up one of many two accessible Paris quotas. With 1.6 between her and China’s Xia, Shriyanka shot a ten.0 for her forty third to complete a creditable fourth.
