Air rifle mixed teams win gold and bronze at Deaflympics

by IANS |

Tokyo, Nov 18 (IANS) Indian shooters sealed another double podium at the 25th Summer Deaflympics in Tokyo winning both the gold and bronze medals in the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team event.

The pair of Dhanush Srikanth and Mahit Sandhu clinched the gold medal overcoming the South Korean pair Jeon Dain and Kim Woorim in the gold medal match while Mohammed Murtaza Vania and Komal Milind Waghmare added a bronze medal to their individual medals after getting the better of Ukrainian pair of Violeta Lykova and Oleksandr Kostyk.

In the gold medal match, Dhanush and Mahit raced to a 4-0 lead in beginning and maintained a clear gap with the Korean pair, eventually clinching the match 17-7. This is Dhanush’s second gold meal of the Deaflympics while Mahit added a gold to her silver which she won in the individual event.

The bronze medal match was tighter, with the Ukrainian pair which included the women’s individual gold medal winner Violeta Lykova. Both pairs were tied 4-4 after the end of the fourth series and at the end of the sixth series Ukraine were leading 7-5. Murtaza Vania and Komal then tied the scores at 7-7, 8-8 and 10-10 after four more rounds. The Indians then won two out of the next four rounds, with the points being shared in the other two. Eventually they secured the bronze medal winning 16-12.

The Indian shooters have won a total of nine medals across three days of competition. The Air Pistol Mixed Teams will be in action tomorrow as Indian will look to add more medals to their tally in shooting at the Deaflympics.