The Indian shot a score of 30 in the final, to finish behind in-form Chinese Yao Qianxun (silver, score: 38) and Korea’s reigning Olympic Champion Yang Jiin (gold, score: 40).
The winners now await the result of the other semifinal between 14-time champions China and Japan.
Manu shot 219.7 in the women’s 10m air pistol final to finish third, before Rashmika clinched the junior women’s air pistol crown with a confident show, her score of 241.9, a yawning 4.3 ahead of silver winning Korean Han Seunghyun.
Indian shooting sensation Sift Kaur Samra continued her impressive run on the international stage, clinching a bronze medal in the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions event at the ISSF World Cup (rifle/pistol) in Munich on Thursday.
Preethi Pal scripted history after clinching bronze in the women's 200m T35 in the ongoing 2024 Games as she became the first Indian woman athlete to win two medals in track & field in the Paralympics or Olympics.
India have now picked up 30 medals from the continental event including eight gold. Anish’s quota was the fifth India have secured in Changwon.
India tasted success on day one of the 15th Asian Shooting Championship in Changwon, Korea, when Sarabjot Singh won bronze in the Men’s 10m Air Pistol and with it an eighth Paris 2024 Olympics quota place in Shooting.
On Monday, Swapna flagged her concern in a social media post without naming Nandini, and appealed for support.
After Wednesday’s medal races for both events were cancelled, Tokyo Olympian Vishnu Saravanan, with 34 net points from 11 races, was awarded the bronze.
The Indian team comprising veteran Sharath Kamal, Harmeet Desai and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran caved as all of them lost their matches.
