With 99 medals and 50 gold, India completes its most successful campaign at Asian Shooting Championships

Shymkent [Kazakhstan], August 31 (ANI): India Ankur Mittal produced a world record-shattering performance on the final day of the Asian Shooting Championships 2025 in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, to clinch gold in the men double trap event as India concluded the event with a new high.

With a final tally of 99 medals, including 50 gold, India registered its most successful campaign at the Asian Shooting Championship, adding 35 more from their previous outing at the 15th Asian Championships in Changwon, South Korea. Host nation Kazakhstan followed in second, while China occupied the third spot in the medals tally of the 16th Asian Shooting Championship.

The Indian shooter managed 107 hits across his four rounds to set a new world record, finishing well clear of Kazakhstan Artyom Chikulayev (98) and Kuwait Ahmad Alaffasi (96), who completed the podium with silver and bronze, respectively, according to Olympics.com.

Ankur also combined with Bhanu Pratap Singh and Harshvardhan Kaviya to win the team bronze in the double trap team event. India prolific run continued in the 25m centre fire pistol as Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu stole the limelight with an individual gold medal.

Sandhu tallied 583 to edge out the Republic of Korea Lee Jaekyoon (580) and the Islamic Republic of Iran Javad Foroughi (579). Olympian Gurpreet Singh also racked up 579 to place fourth but narrowly missed out on a medal on the criteria.

The troika of Sandhu, Gurpreet, and Ankur Goel combined to amass 1,733 points to clinch the team gold ahead of Vietnam (1,720) and Iran (1,700).

In the women 50m rifle prone event, Manini Kaushik finished third and bagged the bronze medal. Shooting consistently across her six series, Kaushik finished with a total of 617.8, marginally behind South Korea Im Hana and Lee Eunseo. Both tallied 620.2, but Im Hana was deemed the gold medal winner on countback.

Though Sift Kaur Samra (617.9) placed ahead of Kaushik and South Korea Yelin Choi (620.1) and occupied the third spot on the leaderboard, both were competing for ranking points only (RPO) and were ineligible for medals. Along with Surabhi Bhardwaj and Vidarsa Vinod, Manini also finished on the podium with a team silver in the event.

Later in the day, India swept the podium in the women double trap, with Anushka Singh Bhati (93), Rajkuwar Pranil Ingle (89), and Yeshaya Hafiz Contractor (87) claiming the gold, silver, and bronze medals, respectively.

Asian Shooting Championship 2025: A look at Indian medal winners:

10m air pistol: Silver (men team): Anmol Jain/Saurabh Chaudhary/Aditya Malra, Bronze (mixed): Saurabh Chaudhary/Suruchi Singh, Bronze (women individual): Manu Bhaker, Bronze (women team): Manu Bhaker/Suruchi Singh/Palak Gulia

25m pistol: Bronze (women team): Manu Bhaker/Esha Singh/Simranpreet Kaur Brar,

25m centre fire pistol: Gold (men individual): Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu, Gold (men team): Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu/Gurpreet Singh/Ankur Goel

25m rapid fire pistol: Silver (men individual): Anish Bhanwala, Silver (men team): Anish Bhanwala/Neeraj Kumar/Adarsh Singh

25m standard pistol: Gold (men individual): Gurpreet Singh, Gold (men team): Gurpreet Singh/Amanpreet Singh/Harsh Gupta

Silver (men individual): Amanpreet Singh

50m pistol: Silver (men team): Yogesh Kumar/Amanpreet Singh/Ravinder Singh

10m air rifle: Gold (men team): Rudrankksh Patil/Arjun Babuta/Kiran Jadhav, Gold (women individual): Elavenil Valarivan

Bronze (women team): Elavenil Valarivan/Mehuli Ghosh/Ananya Naidu, Gold (mixed): Elavenil Valarivan/Arjun Babuta

50m rifle prone: Bronze (women individual): Manini Kaushik, Silver (women team): Manini Kaushik/Surabhi Bharadwaj Rapole/Vidarsa Kochalumkal Vinod

50m rifle 3 positions: Gold (women team): Sift Kaur Samra/Ashi Chouksey/Anjum Moudgil, Gold (women individual): Sift Kaur Samra, Gold (men individual): Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Silver (men team): Aishwary Tomar/Chain Singh/Akhil Sheoran

Trap: Gold (women individual): Neeru Dhanda, Gold (women team): Neeru Dhanda/Aashima Ahlawat/Preeti Rajak, Silver (men individual): Bhowneesh Mendiratta, Bronze (women individual): Aashima Ahlawat

Double trap: Gold (men individual): Ankur Mittal, Bronze (men team): Ankur Mittal/Bhanu Pratap Singh/Harshvardhan Kaviya,

Gold (women individual): Anushka Singh Bhati, Silver (women individual): Rajkuwar Pranil Ingle, Bronze (women individual): Yeshaya Hafiz Contractor, Gold (women team): Anushka Singh Bhati/Rajkuwar Pranil Ingle/Yeshaya Hafiz Contractor

Skeet: Gold (men individual): Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Bronze (mixed): Ganemat Sekhon/Abhay Singh Sekhon, Bronze (women team): Maheshwari Chauhan/Ganemat Sekhon/Raiza Dhillon,

Asian Junior Shooting Championships 2025: Indian medal winners:

10m air pistol: Gold (men individual): Kapil Bainsla, Gold (women individual): Rashmika Sahgal, Gold (women team): Rashmika Sahgal/Vanshika Chaudhary/Mohini Singh, Gold (mixed): Vanshika Chaudhary/Jonathan Gavin Antony, Silver (men team): Kapil Bainsla/Jonathan Gavin Antony/Vijay Tomar, Bronze (men individual): Jonathan Gavin Antony

Youth 10m air pistol: Gold (women individual): Kanak Budhwar, Gold (women team): Kanak Budhwar/Agam Grewal/Gamberya Gowda, Gold (men individual): Girish Gupta, Gold (men team): Girish Gupta/Dev Pratap/Jonathan Gavin Antony, Gold (mixed): Ganesh Gupta/Gamberya Gowda, Silver (women individual): Agam Grewal

10m air rifle: Gold (men individual): Abhinav Shaw, Gold (men team): Abhinav Shaw/Naraen Pranav/Himanshu, Gold (women team): Shambhavi Kshirsagar/Hrudya Sri Kondur/Isha Anil Taksale

Skeet: Gold (women individual): Mansi Raghuwanshi, Gold (men team): Harmehar Singh Lally/Jyotiraditya Singh Sisodia/Atul Singh Rajawat, Silver (women individual): Yashasvi Rathore, Silver (men individual): Harmehar Singh Lally, Bronze (men individual): Jyotiraditya Singh Sisodia

25m pistol: Gold (women individual): Payal Khatri, Gold (men individual): Suraj Sharma, Silver (women individual): Naamya Kapoor, Silver (women team): Tejaswini/Payal Khatri/Riya Shirish Thatte, Silver (men individual): Abhinav Choudhary

Bronze (men individual): Mukesh Nelavalli, Bronze (men team): Mukesh Nelavalli/Abhinav Choudhary/Suraj Sharma

Bronze (women individual): Tejaswini

25m rapid fire pistol: Gold (men team): Sameer Gulia/Suraj Sharma/Abhinav Choudhary, Bronze (men individual): Sameer Gulia

25m standard pistol: Gold (men team): Mukesh Nelavalli/Suraj Sharma/Tanishq Naidu, Silver (men individual): Suraj Sharma

Bronze (men individual): Tanishq Naidu

50m 3 positions: Gold (women individual): Anushka Thokur, Gold (women team): Anushka Thokur/Prachi Gaikwad/Mahit Sandhu

Trap: Gold (women individual): Sabeera Haris, Gold (men team): Aryavansh Tyagi/Arjun/Udhav Singh Rathore, Gold (women team): Sabeera Haris/Addya Katyal/Bhavya Tripathi, Silver (men individual): Aryavansh Tyagi, Silver (women individual): Addya Katyal, Silver (mixed): Aryavansh Tyagi/Bhavya Tripathi

50m pistol: Gold (men team): Abhinav Choudhary, Umesh Choudhary, Mukesh Nelavalli

50m rifle prone: Gold (men team): Sami Ulah Khan, Adriyan Karmakar, Kushagra Singh Rajawat, Silver (women individual): Prachi Gaikwad, Bronze (women team): Prachi Gaikwad/Anushka Thokur/Tejal Nathawat

Double trap: Gold (men team): Hatim Khan Mohammed/Manavrajsinh Chudasama/Vinay Pratap Singh Chandrawat,

Silver (men individual): Hatim Khan Mohammed, Silver (women team silver): Krishika Joshi/Avani Alankar Koli/Smita Sawant, Bronze (men individual): Manavrajsinh Chudasama, Bronze (women individual): Avani Alankar Koli. (ANI)

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