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Incheon: India’s shooter Friday bagged their second silver in the 17th Asian Games as the men’s shooting team completed campaign at second position in tally for the 25 metre center fire pistol at the Ongnyeon International Shooting Range.

The Indian shooters Pemba Tamang, Gurpreet Singh and London Olympics silver medallist Vijay Kumar scored a joint 1740-68x to finish second to China’s team of Yongde Jin, Chuanlin Li and Feng Ding, who fired 1742-56x to take gold.

Tamang shot 288-22x (93, 99, 96 in precision and 99, 97, 97 in rapid) while Gurpreet scored 292-25x (98, 99, 95 in precision and 95, 96, 97 in rapid). Vijay shot 285-21x (95, 94, 96 in precision and 100, 98, 96 in rapid) to help India get their 16th overall medal and eighth from the shooting range.

South Korea, with the team of Youngmin Kim, Daekyu Jang and Jinil Kim, scored 1739-54x to win bronze.

However, none of the Indians managed to finish on the podium in the individual event. Pemba Tamang, Gurpreet and Vijay finished eighth, ninth and 12th, respectively. The individual gold went to Qatar’s Oleg Engachev while China’s Jin took silver and Singapore’s Bin Gai won bronze.

Indian women’s team ended sixth in the rifle 3 positions event while in the individual category, Lajja Goswami got seventh place. In the team event, China, South Korea and Kazakhstan bagged gold, silver and bronze, respectively.

The Indian women’s team as Lajja, Anjali Bhagwat and former World Champion Tejaswini Muley scored 1722-68x. Lajja shot 582-5x while veteran Anjali hit 572-23x. Tejaswini scored 568-28x but could not make it to the get the medal.

While in the individual category, Lajja, made it to the final and shot 401.6 to secure seventh place in the list.

Kazak’s player Olga Dovgun, won the gold with a score of 456.4, while South Korea’s Mira Jeong clinched silver. China’s Jing Chang came third with 446.2 mark.