{"id":490001,"date":"2023-09-28T10:21:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T04:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=490001"},"modified":"2023-09-28T10:21:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T04:51:13","slug":"asian-games-men-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sports-news\/asian-games-men-pistol\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games : India wins gold in men&#8217;s 10m air pistol team event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With a combined score of 1734, the Indian team of Sarabjot Singh, Shiva Narwal, and Arjun Singh Cheema took home the gold in the Men&#8217;s 10m Air Pistol Team competition. They narrowly defeated China by one point and won the team gold thanks to their outstanding effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Putting up a great performance, Vietnam earned the bronze medal with a final score of 1730. During the individual qualification event, Sarabjot took fifth place with 580 points, while Arjun took eighth with 578 points. The men&#8217;s 10m air pistol final is slated to take place later today, and both of them are expected to compete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the women&#8217;s 25-meter pistol gold and the 10m air rifle top-podium result, this was the third team gold in these shooting ranges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd47\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 GOLD! Congratulations to Arjun Singh Cheema, Sarabjot Singh, Shiva Narwal on securing the Gold medal in the Men&#39;s 10m Air Pistol Team event.<br><br>\u23e9 Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thebharatarmy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@thebharatarmy<\/a> on Instagram and X for instant updates on the Asian Games 2022.<br><br>\ud83d\udcf7 Pic belongs to the respective owners \u2022\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iZW11k8g5Y\">pic.twitter.com\/iZW11k8g5Y<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Bharat Army (@thebharatarmy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thebharatarmy\/status\/1707220611041489008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 22-year-old Sarabjot, who earlier this year at the ISSF World Cup in Bhopal earned his first individual senior gold medal, will be aiming for additional success in the individual division as he is now ranked fifth among the eight finalists following the qualification round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mixed team gold was won at the recently concluded World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. Sarabjot&#8217;s success story began in 2021 when he won the junior air pistol team and mixed team gold at the ISSF World Championships in Lima, Peru. Since then, he has been performing consistently. He made 580 total shots in series of 95, 95, 97, 98, 97, and 98.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arjun Cheema, a teammate, qualified for the finals with a 578 and finished eighth with a string of shots totaling 97, 96, 97, 97, 96, and 95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With their fourth gold medal in the shooting category, India now has 24 medals overall in the 2018 Asian Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Men&#8217;s hockey action between India and Japan will take place in the evening, but before that, Sunil Chhetri and his team will face a formidable battle against Saudi Arabia in a round of 32 match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the women&#8217;s 25-meter pistol gold and the 10m air rifle top-podium result, this was the third team gold in these shooting ranges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":490003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6,110599],"tags":[160793,130233,1725,42,3726],"yst_prominent_words":[46244,46241,45723,24107,46117,26052,29901,46248,46251,18539,20964,79943],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/09\/28101823\/ezgif-5-33ea650848-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490001"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=490001"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=490001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->