Two gold, three silver and two bronze — that’s what the ranges rewarded the Indian shooters with on Wednesday, the most productive so far in both quality and quantity as India’s Asian Games medal tally climbed to 22 on the seventh day of competition.
It also pushed India’s shooting tally to 12 medals with four days still to go. Esha Singh took silver in 25m fire pistol, Anantjeet Singh Naruka went one better than the legendary Karni Singh (bronze in 1974) as he won India’s first silver and only the second medal in skeet. Ashi Chouksey bagged a bronze in 50m 3 positions but the day belonged to Sift Kaur Samra who won the gold.
The first and the only individual gold medallist for India at the 19th Asian Games so far with a new Asian, Asian Games and World record in the process, the 22-year old was in a ‘happy’ place. “I think I can be called a ‘happy shooter’. I am not very calculative, I don’t think during competition but then again I am thinking about the process, focusing on my technique like the coaches told me,” she laughed.
