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asian games 2018: Asian Games: Shooters Apurvi Chandela and Ravi Kumar win India's first medal | Asian Games 2018 News

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NEW DELHI: India opened their account at 2018 Asian Games with a bronze medal in the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team event on Sunday, the first day of action of the continental sporting extravaganza.

Live Blog: Asian Games 2018, Day 1

Apurvi Chandela and Ravi Kumar won bronze in the mixed team after finishing behind the teams of China and Chinese Taipei. The Indian pair shot 429.9 points in the final, while Chinese Taipei bagged the gold with a Games Record score of 494.1 points. Favourites China settled for silver with 492.5 points.

Apurvi and Ravi qualified for the final at second position with a score of 835.3 points behind South Korea (836.7 points). Korea though finished fourth in the final.

In the other shooting event of the day, the Indian pair of Manu Bhaker and Abhishek Verma failed to qualify for the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team finals.



Earlier, India women kabaddi team beat Japan 43-12 in its Group A match. In Rowing, Malkeet Singh and Gurinder Singh have qualified for Men's Pair final, while the pair of Om Prakash and Sawarn Singh entered Men's Double Sculls finals


India had a good day in pool as swimmer Sajan Prakash qualified for men's 200m butterfly final and Srihari Nataraj reached 100m backstroke final.


But the Indian women's basketball team had a disappointing outing as it lost 61-84 to Chinese Taipei. This was India's second defeat in the group stage, having earlier lost to Kazakhstan 61-79.


In Wushu men's finals, Anjul Namdeo and Suraj Singh Mayanglambam finished fifth and tenth respectively.



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