23 September,2026 11:11 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
India`s womens skeet team (Pic: ANI)
The Indian women's skeet team featuring Raiza Dhillon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal, and Maheshwari Chauhan clinched the bronze medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026.
The Indian trio combined for an overall total of 331 points to finish third in the women's skeet team competition. Both Dhillon and Dhaliwal registered matching scores of 111 out of 125, while Chauhan added 109 points to round out the team total.
China won gold with an impressive total of 346, while Kazakhstan took home silver. The bronze performance brought India's shooting tally to six medals at these Games as the players continued their solid run.
Elsewhere on Wednesday, two-time Olympic medalist Manu Bhaker led India's performance by qualifying for the women's 10m air pistol individual final. Teammates Suruchi Inder Singh and Esha Singh fell short during qualification and missed the cut for the final round.
In rowing, Balraj Panwar claimed a spot in the men's single sculls final by finishing third in his heat with a time of 6:52.84, placing fourth overall across both heats. The men's double sculls team of Satnam Singh and Salman Khan also booked their place in the final after clocking 6:15.63 to finish second in their heat and fourth overall. Additionally, Jaswinder Singh and Nitin Kumar placed fourth in their men's pair heat to book a spot in Final B, while the women's four crew featured in their opening heat.
India's canoe sprint squad also generated positive results. The men's kayak four 500m team, Harshwardhan Shaktawat, Varinder Singh, L Naocha Singh Oinam, and Arun Singh, advanced to Final A with a third-place finish in Heat 1 (1:29.447). Megha Pradeep took fifth in her women's canoe single 200m heat to advance to the semi-finals, while Parvathy Geetha and Phairembam Soniya Devi progressed in the women's kayak double 500m.
Earlier, Indian wushu star Naorem Roshibina Devi assured herself of a third successive Asian Games medal after storming into the women's Sanda 60kg semifinals with a 5-0 victory over Macao, China's Chu Man Sin. Lakshya Sen and the men's team also confirmed a medal in badminton.
(With inputs from ANI)
