Within the Combined Group 10m Air Pistol (SH1) gold-medal match, Tokyo Paralympic gold medallist Manish Narwal and associate Rubina Francis confronted a 12-16 defeat in opposition to China’s Li Min and Yang Chao.India additionally earned a bronze in the identical occasion, with Bhakti Sharma and Rudransh Khandelwal defeating the Cuban pair of Yenigladys Suarez and Loriga Rodriguez 16-8.
Mona Agarwal, who had beforehand clinched a person gold and secured a Paris Paralympic berth, partnered with Giri however settled for silver after shedding to the Chinese language pair of Zhong Yixin and Dong Chao with a rating of 16-4 within the ultimate.
In the identical occasion, the Indian pair of Avani Lekhara and Mahavir Swaroop, who competed for the bronze, have been defeated by the Ukrainian duo of Iryna Shchetnik and Andrii Doroshenko with an identical margin.
The qualification spherical noticed Mona and Giri scoring 622.9 to arrange a gold-medal conflict with the Chinese language pair, who topped the spherical with an combination of 627.9. Solely the highest two groups in blended group occasions advance to the gold-medal match, whereas the underside two compete for bronze.
Within the Combined Group 10m Air Rifle Standing (SH2) occasion, India’s Pawani Banoth and Satya Janardhana Rayana secured a bronze medal by defeating the New Zealand duo of Natalie Brunzel and Kiranjit Singh with a rating of 17-15. The gold was gained by Brazil’s Jessica Daiane Michalack and Bruno Stov Kiefer.
Regardless of being the favorites, the Indian pair of Manish Narwal and Rubina Francis, who equaled the Qualification World Report within the preliminary spherical, confronted disappointment within the Combined Group 10m Air Pistol (SH1) occasion. They have been defeated by the Chinese language pair within the finals, settling for a silver medal.
(With PTI inputs)
