Hangzhou, Sept 28: India women’s skeet team finished fourth in the Asian Games on Wednesday and missed a podium finish. The skeet team of Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Darshna Rathore and Ganemat Sekhon earned 336 points.Kazakhstan claimed the gold medal with 350 points, China secured silver with 348 points while Thailand won bronze with 342 points. Earlier in the day, the men’s skeet team of Angad Vir Singh, Gurjoat Singh and Anand Jeet Singh bagged the bronze medal. The gold medal went to China with 362 points, Qatar secured silver medal with 359 points and the Indian team earned 355 points to get the bronze. India’s Sift Kaur Samra bagged a gold while Ashi Chouksey got a bronze medal in the women’s 50 m rifle 3P individual final. It was a double podium finish for India in the event. Sift got 469.6 points and created a world record and in the process also broke Asian record and the Asian Games record. The world record was held by Great Britain, the Asian record by China and the Asian Games record by Mongolia. Ashi got 451.9 points. China’s Qiongyue Zhang won the silver in the event with 462.3 points.

