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Sehwag, Bindra & Rathore Hail 16-Yr-Old Saurabh’s Asiad Gold

Asian Games 2018: Saurabh Chaudhary clinches record breaking gold medal at the age of 16, twitter celebrates.

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Indian shooters Saurabh Chaudhary and Abhishek Verma bagged the gold and bronze medals respectively in the Men's 10 metre Air Pistol final at the 2018 Asian Games.

Saurabh, 16, clinched the gold after producing an Asian Games record score of 240.7. It was India's third gold medal at the ongoing Games. Abhishek, 29, stood third scoring 219.3 to take India's medal tally to seven. He had finished sixth during the qualification round.

At the beginning, Saurabh, who topped the qualifications after a score of 586, began his finals with a 50.6 in the opening five-shot series. In the second five-shot series, he scored 50.8 to take his total to 101.4, while Matsuda had 103.3 in total at this point of time. In the third series, a two-shot round, Saurabh scored 18.6. He then produced scores of 19.4, 20.0, 20.6, 20.2 to have a total of 200.2 at the end of seven series when Matsuda and Saurabh totalled 201.3 and 199.7 respectively as the top three places were determined.

In the eighth series, Saurabh, Matsuda and Abhishek got scores of 19.9, 19.2 and 19.6 as the latter was eliminated.

The drama unfolded in the final series, with Matsuda coming up with his worst shot of the entire final round to give the advantage to Saurabh, who grabbed the opportunity with both hands.

Twitter Lauded The 16-Yr-Old’s Performance

The event saw India add two medals to the overall tally. While Chaudhary, held his nerves at the crucial stages to win the gold with a 10.4 shot.

He faced tough competition from Japan’s Matsuda Tomoyuki who faltered with his penultimate shot of 8.9. This allowed the young Indian to take the lead with one shot remaining.

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Chaudhary managed to contain his emotions and appeared calm in front of the cheering audience.

Let us know what you think about the young shooters incredible achievement.

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