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Asian
Games shooting: Narang helps India win two silver
Saturday November 13, 2010 01:07:51 PM,
IANS
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Guangzhou:
Ace Indian shooter Gagan Narang won silver in the individual event
and also helped the team clinch the silver in the men's 10 metre
air rifle contest on the opening day of the shooting competition
at the Asian Games here Saturday.
In the individual event, Narang shot 103.7 in the final round (597
in qualifying) for a total of 700.7 points to win the silver.
The Indian team comprising Narang (597), Olympic champion Abhinav
Bindra (593), and Sanjeev Rajput (593) missed the gold by a point
after they shot a total of 1,783 in the team event at the Aoti
Shooting Range.
The Chinese team comprising 2004 Olympic champion Zhu Qinan, Yu
Jikang and Cao Yifei won the gold with 1,784 points while South
Korea's Kiwon Kim, Jonghyun Kim and Sungsoon Choi got the bronze
with 1,780 points.
The individual gold went China's 2004 Olympic champion Zhu Qinan,
who shot 104 in the final and 598 in the qualifying, and finished
with a total of 702. South Korea's Kiwon Kim got the bronze with a
total of 700 (596 qualifying, 104 final).
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