Sen, Vidarsa, Ashi fall agonizingly short in 50m rifle 3p but win silver at Asian Games

It was a day of near misses but India’s women’s shooting trio of Tilottama Sen, Vidarsa K Vinod, and Ashi Chouksey secured silver in the 50m rifle 3 positions team event, combining for a total of 1,763-90x — just ten points behind gold medallists China’s 1,773, a score that matched the Asian Games record. Kazakhstan took bronze on 1,754.

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Tilottama led the Indian effort with 590-32x, with Vidarsa contributing 588-29x and Ashi Chouksey rounding out the total with 585-29x. The same qualification round doubled as entry for the individual final, and Tilottama’s consistency across the kneeling and prone stages carried her to third place overall, while Vidarsa recovered from a slow start to climb to sixth — both booking India’s two spots in the final. Ashi finished 15th and missed out, though her score still counted in full towards the team’s silver-winning total.

Heartbreak for Sen, Vidarsa bags second silver

The individual final brought agonising heartbreak for Tilottama. She led South Korea’s Kim Jieun by 0.3 points heading into the final shot for bronze, only for a 9.4 to hand the medal to Kim, who closed with a 10.5. Tilottama finished fourth. Vidarsa’s final ended a shot earlier — a 10.4 saw her through one elimination, edging out Kazakhstan’s Arina Malinovskaya (316.7), before a 10.0 on the next shot ended her campaign, finishing fifth with a total of 327.4.

It’s also a second silver of the Games for Vidarsa K Vinod, who had earlier teamed up with Elavenil Valarivan and Sonam Uttam Maskar for team silver in the women’s 10m air rifle. Pics: NRAI

Kim’s bronze-clinching 348.4 was, remarkably, just 0.1 behind China’s Han Jiayu at that same stage of the competition — Han had reached 348.7 before advancing to a separate two-way shootout for gold against compatriot Zhang Liyuan. That contest came down to one shot with just 0.2 points between them: Han’s 10.5 sealed a new Asian Record of 359.0, with Zhang taking silver on 358.8.

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It’s also a second silver of the Games for Vidarsa, who had earlier teamed up with Elavenil Valarivan and Sonam Uttam Maskar for team silver in the women’s 10m air rifle, won behind a world-record Chinese total on September 20.