HANGZHOU: When the shootoff shot released by Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar hit a 10.8 to beat compatriot Rudrankksh Patil's 10.5 on Monday, both were already Asian Games gold medallists. With Divyansh Singh Panwar included, the trio had won the men's 10m air rifle team gold with a world record score of 1893.7. But it was that 10.8 in the individual final at the Fuyang Yinhu Sports Centre that took Tomar eight years back, when the responsibility to decide the road ahead for him was in the hands of his father.
Beating Rudrankksh in the shootoff assured a second Asian Games medal, a bronze, for the 22-year-old Tomar two hours apart, as a dejected Divyansh sat out despite finishing in the top-eight bracket.
