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Golden double for India’s rifle shooter Sift Kaur

India are placed second on the charts with 20 medals, nine of them gold. China are leading the table with 24 medals, including 13 gold

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Sift Kaur Samra with her gold medals on Tuesday. Pic/SAI Media

Sift Kaur Samra with her gold medals on Tuesday. Pic/SAI Media

Olympian Sift Kaur Samra pulled off an incredible show, clinching the individual women’s 50m rifle 3 positions gold and helping the country to the team title as well in the Asian Shooting Championships here on Tuesday.

The 23-year-old world record holder fired a superb 459.2 in the final to beat China’s Yang Yujie (458.8) for gold, and the trio of Samra, stalwart Anjum Moudgil and Ashi Chouksey also bagged the top podium in the team event with an aggregate of 1753 points.

India are placed second on the charts with 20 medals, nine of them gold. China are leading the table with 24 medals, including 13 gold.

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