Asian Games 2023 / India won gold in shooting with world record

Asian Games 2023: India has won its first gold medal in Asian Games 2023. India has got this gold medal in shooting. In the men's 10 meter air rifle team event, India's Divyansh Singh Pawar, Rudrankash Patil and Aishwarya Tomar created a world record and won the gold medal for India. Apart from shooting, India also won a bronze medal on the second day. India started its first day in the 19th Asian Games by winning the silver medal. India had won that medal in the women's team event in shooting. After winning 3 silver and 2 bronze on the first day, India has started the second day in an even better way.

Broke the world record and won gold

India has started the second day with a script of golden victory. And, it is not just the golden victory that has been achieved. In fact, along with this, the world record among Indian shooters has also been broken. This means Indian sports lovers have got two reasons to celebrate.

In the team event of men's 10 meter air rifle, the three shooters of India - Divyansh Singh Pawar, Rudranksh Balasaheb and Aishwarya Tomar, broke the world record with the combined score. Together these three added 1893.7 points, which is a world record. Earlier this record was of 1893.3 points, which was made by China. Among the three Indian shooters, Rudrankash Patil scored the highest score of 632.5 points. Apart from them, Aishwarya Tomar scored 631.6 points while Divyansh Pawar scored 629.6 points.

India got another bronze in rowing

After winning gold along with world record in shooting, India also won a bronze medal on the second day. India got this bronze medal in rowing. Here, in the final of the Men's Four event, Jaswinder, Bhim, Punit and Ashish won the bronze medal for India with a time of 6:10.81.