New Delhi, Mar 28
Teenage shooting stars Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary smashed the qualification world record before clinching the 10m air pistol mixed team
gold medal in the 12th Asian Airgun Championship in Taoyuan, Chinese Taipei, today.
Their feat came exactly a month after they won the ISSF World Cup gold in the same event in Delhi.
The 17-year-old Manu and 16-year-old Saurabh shot a combined score of 784 in the qualification round, breaking the record set by Russians Vitalina Batsarashkina and Artem Chernousov at the European Championships five days ago.
The Indians then went on to win the five-team final with a score of 484.8.
Hwang Seongeun and Kim Mose of South Korea won the silver with a score of 481.1, while Wu Chia Ying and Kou Kuan-Ting claimed the bronze for Chinese Taipei with a score of 413.3.
India’s Anuradha and Abhishek Verma finished fourth with a score of 372.1.
