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At 12th Asian Championship, Doha, Qatar

50m RIFLE 3 POSITIONS MEN
Gold - Sanjeev RAJPUT (IND) (99 97 98 100 92 92 92 96 97 91 97 97) 1148 + 93.0 = 1241.0 pts
Silver - Jonghyun KIM (KOR) (99 96 97 96 93 94 97 90 94 96 94 96) 1142 + 96.3 = 1238.3 pts
Bronze - Gagan NARANG (IND) (95 95 93 97 94 96 98 92 93 95 94 92 1134 + 98.0 = 1232.0 pts

5 Imran Hasan KHAN (IND) (98 97 99 98 96 91 93 94 93 94 92 94) 1139 + 85.4 = 1224.4 pts

50m RIFLE 3 POSITIONS MEN TEAM
Gold - India 3421 Pts (110x)
Sanjeev RAJPUT - 1148 pts (45x)
Prone - 99 97 98 100 = 394 pts
Standing - 92 92 92 96 = 372 pts
Kneeling - 97 91 97 97 = 382 pts

Imran Hasan KHAN - 1139 pts (36x)
Prone - 98 97 99 98 = 392 pts
Standing - 96 91 93 94 = 374 pts
Kneeling - 93 94 92 94 = 373 pts

Gagan NARANG - 1134 pts (29x)
Prone - 95 95 93 97 = 380 pts
Standing - 94 96 98 92 = 380 pts
Kneeling - 93 95 94 92 = 374 pts

Silver - Republic of Korea 3405 pts (102x)

Bronze - Mongolia 3376 pts (106x)

Shotgun TRAP MEN
Gold - Manavjit Singh SANDHU (IND) (24 25 25 24 24) 122 + 17 = 139.0
Silver - Talal ALRASHIDI (KUW) (24 23 23 24 23) 117 + 17 = 134.0
Bronze - Rashid AL-ATHBA (QAT) (24 24 23 23 23) 117 + 15 = 132.0

Shotgun TRAP MEN TEAM
Gold - Kuwait 344

Silver - India 337
Manavjit Singh SANDHU - 24 25 25 24 24 = 122
Kynan CHENAI - 23 22 21 21 21 = 108
Mansher SINGH - 22 24 21 21 19 = 107

Bronze - Lebanon 331

Indians gave excellent performance in the mens 50m rifle 3 positions event ... Sanjeev Rajput qualified for the final on top position with 6 points lead which he defended comfortably to won the Gold ... Gagan Narang, who qualified for the final on 5th position, had a best round in the final which helped him to win the Bronze ... Imran Hasan Khan qualified for the final on 4th position but struggled in the final which dropped him on 5th position but top 4 shooters (2 Indians and 2 Koreans) had already won a quota place, So despite finishing on 5th place Imran Hasan Khan win a quota place for London Olympics ... In team event also we won the Gold comfortably by 16 pts.

In Shotgun Trap men event Manavjit Singh Sandhu won the Gold medal and also importantly won a quota place for the London Olympics ... Manavjit qualified for the final on the first place with a score of 122 hits, which was 5 shots better than next shooter ... In the final Manavjit had a bad start as he managed to hit 3 from first 7 shots but then he recovered remarkably to hit 14 shots from next 18 to captured the Gold ... Due to excellent shooting from Manavjit helped India to won Silver in the team event.

In non-Olympics event 25m Center Fire Pistol, Pemba Tamang tied for 2nd place with another 2 shooters but lost in shoot-off to finished on 4th place ... In this event Indian team also finished on 4th place.

India finished Asian Championship with 7 Gold, 4 Silver and 4 Bronze medals - overall 15 medals ... This is a big improvement considering our Asian games performance where we had only 1 Gold and overall 8 medals.

But other hand we managed only 2 additional Olympic quota places from this tournament to make total of 11 quota places for the London Olympics... Little improvement from last Beijing Olympics where We had 8 quota places.