India wrapped up their Asian Shooting Championships 2026 campaign in New Delhi with seven medals on the final day, taking their overall tally in senior rifle and pistol events to 33, 13 gold, 11 silver and nine bronze medals.
Amanpreet Singh, a former 25m standard pistol world champion, headlined Friday’s action with a gold in the 25m centre fire pistol, a non-Olympic shooting event. The 38-year-old Indian shooter topped the field with 589-24x across rapid and precision rounds.
Amanpreet’s compatriots Gurpreet Singh (584-20x) and Ankur Goel (570-11x) completed a podium sweep for India in the individual event. The trio also clinched team gold with a combined 1743-55x, ahead of Vietnam (1671-38x). Only two teams were eligible for the team medals.
In the women’s 50m rifle prone event, Asian Games 50m rifle 3 positions champion Sift Kaur Samra secured silver with 623.2. Kazakhstan’s Yelizaveta Bezrukova took gold with 623.4, while India’s Tejaswini Sawant (621.0) won bronze.
Priya Brijpal Singh topped the field with 627.4 but competed for Ranking Points Only (RPO). Neither the 25m centre fire pistol nor the 50m rifle prone featured separate finals.
India also clinched gold in the women’s 50m rifle prone team event with a total of 1862.9. Manini Kaushik, who finished seventh, contributed 618.7.
On Thursday, two-time Olympian Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar set a new world record of 362.0 to win the men’s 50m rifle 3 positions title. India swept that podium as well, with Niraj Kumar taking silver and Akhil Sheoran bronze.
Earlier in the championships, Olympian Esha Singh won the women’s 10m air pistol gold, while reigning world champion Samrat Rana secured bronze in the men’s event. Two-time Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker took silver in the women’s 25m pistol.
India topped the overall medal standings, securing a total of 94 medals, including 51 gold, 23 silver and 20 bronze.
Indian medal winners:
10m air pistol:
Gold (women’s individual): Esha Singh
Gold (women’s team): Suruchi Singh, Manu Bhaker and Esha Singh
Silver (men’s team): Samrat Rana, Sharvan Kumar and Varun Tomar
Silver (mixed team): Samrat Rana and Suruchi Singh
Bronze (men’s individual): Samrat Rana
10m air rifle:
Gold (men’s individual): Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil
Gold (men’s team): Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil, Arjun Babuta and Vishal Singh
Gold (women’s team): Elavenil Valarivan, Meghana Sajjanar and Arya Borse
Gold (mixed team): Arjun Babuta and Elavenil Valarivan
Gold (women’s individual): Elavenil Valarivan
Silver (men’s individual): Arjun Babuta
Bronze (women’s individual): Meghana Sajjanar
25m pistol:
Gold (women’s team): Esha Singh, Manu Bhaker and Rhythm Sangwan
Silver (women’s individual): Manu Bhaker
Bronze (women’s individual): Esha Singh
50m rifle 3 positions:
Gold (men’s individual): Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar
Gold (men’s team): Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Niraj Kumar, Akhil Sheoran
Silver (women’s individual): Aakriti Dahiya
Silver (women’s team): Aakriti Dahiya, Anjum Moudgil, Ashi Chouksey
Silver (men’s individual): Niraj Kumar
Bronze (men’s individual): Akhil Sheoran
Bronze (women’s individual): Anjum Moudgil
25m rapid fire pistol:
Silver (men’s team): Anish Bhanwala, Adarsh Singh and Neeraj Kumar
Bronze (men’s individual): Anish Bhanwala
50m rifle prone:
Gold (women’s team): Sift Kaur Samra, Tejaswini Sawant and Manini Kaushik
Silver (men’s team): Babu Singh Panwar, Samarvir Singh and Tiwana Sartaj Singh
Silver (women’s individual): Sift Kaur Samra
Bronze (women’s individual): Tejaswini Sawant
Bronze (men’s individual): Babu Singh Panwar
25m centre fire pistol:
Gold (men’s individual): Amanpreet Singh
Silver (men’s individual): Gurpreet Singh
Bronze (men’s individual): Ankur Goel
Gold (men’s team): Amanpreet Singh, Gurpreet Singh and Ankur Goel
