New Delhi: India’s Aakriti Dahiya and Anjum Moudgil won the silver and bronze medal respectively in the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions event at the Asian Shooting Championship here on Tuesday.
Kazakhstan shooter Sofiya Shulzhenko set a new world record in the same event enroute winning gold at the Karni Singh Range.
Sofiya ended the 35-shot final with a score of 358.2, a whole four points clear of silver-winning Aakriti. Aakriti’s senior teammate Anjum, a world championship medallist, clinched bronze with a score of 340.4.
The accumulated total of the said shooters (1756-86x) ensured India won the women’s team silver.
Earlier, in qualification, it was Anjum who fared better with 587 points and a third-place finish. Interestingly, Aakriti had finished seventh with 583.
Once again, an RPO (Ranking Points Only) athlete stole the limelight. Vidarsa Kochalumkal Vinod, with 590 points, topped the chart. She dropped a solitary point in Prone.
