India gets it first medal of Day 3 of Asian Games 2014 after the Indian trio shooters Heena Sidhu, Rahi Sarnobat and Anisa Sayyed bagged the fourth bronze for India. They won the bronze medal in 25m Pistol Women’s Team event finishing third behind the teams from Republic of Korea and China. With this medal, India’s medal tally moves up to 5 including 1 gold and 4 bronze medals.

Shooters Heena Sidhu, Rahi Sarnobat and Anisa Sayyed hit a total of 1729-45x while China’s ZHANG Jingjing, CHEN Ying and ZHOU Qingyuan finished second with 1747-57x while host nation South Korea, LEE Jungeun, KWAK Junghye and  KIM Jangmi wwon the gold medal with 1748-48x.

Earlier, India’s Ayonika Paul, Apurvi Chandela and Raj Chaudhry finish at the fifth spot in 10m Air Rifle Women’s Team Finals. In the individual 10m Air Rifle Women’s event, 21-year-old Ayonika Paul finished with a lowly 7th rank while Apurvi Chandela and Raj Chaudhry failed to qualify for the finals after finishing at the 12th place and 35th place respectively.

The bronze medal by shooters Heena Sidhu, Rahi Sarnobat and Anisa Sayyed is also fourth medal in shooting out of the 5 medals won so far with the one coming from Indian women’s badminton team.

source: http://www.india.com / India.com / Home> Sports / by Rashmi Mishra / September 22nd, 2014