Narang wins silver, Bindra disappoints at Asian Games

Guangzhou, Nov 13 (PTI) Ace shooter Gagan Narang picked
up his and India's second medal at the Asian Games by netting
the silver in the 10m air rifle individual event but Olympic
champion Abhinav Bindra disappointed by failing to even
qualify for the finals here on Saturday.
Narang could not better the world record of 703.5 that he
holds and shot a score of 700.7 (597+103.7) to settle for
silver behind China's Qinan Zhu (598+104).
Korean Kiwon Kim (596+104) took the bronze medal.
Narang, who won three bronze medals in Doha Games four
years ago, was the lone Indian to qualify for the event after
Bindra and Sanjeev Rajput failed to make the cut in the
qualifying shoot-off.
With a regulation qualifying score of 593, Bindra and
Rajput were tied with Kyrgyzstan's Ruslan Ismailov and Japan's
Toshikazu Yamashita but the Indian duo fell by the wayside
after a shoot-off.
Bindra and Rajput's shoot-off tally of 50.6 and 51.8
respectively was not good enough against Ismailov (52) and
Yamashita (51.9).
Earlier, Narang, Bindra and Rajput had combined to fetch
a silver in the 10m air rifle team event. PTI PM
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