Team India began their medal hunt at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Sunday as Indian shooters bagged the women's team silver in the 10m air rifle event on Sunday. Rowers too followed suit with Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh winning a silver medal in the men's lightweight doubles sculls event.
Shooters Mehuli Ghosh, Ramita Jindal and Ashi Chouksey score a total of 1,886.0 points, which put them in the second spot behind hosts China. The Chinese team smashed the Asian record with 1896.6 points.
Mehuli and Ramita have also entered the eight-shooter final of the women's 10m air rifle individual event, slated to be held later in the day.
In the qualification round, Ramita, just 19 years of age, finished second scoring 631.9 while Mehuli was fourth with a score of 630.8 points.
All three Chinese Chinese shooters -- Han Jiayu, Huang Yuting and Wang Zhilin -- entered the final, while South Korea's Lee Eunseo, Mongolia's Ganhuyag Nandinzaya and Chinese Taipei's Chen Chi were the other three shooter to make the eight-team final.
The team medals in shooting are decided on the combined scores of a country's shooters in the qualification round.
Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh won a silver medal for India in the men's lightweight doubles sculls event in rowing at the Asian Games here on Sunday. The Indian duo finished second with a timing of 6:28.18s behind China's Junjie Fan and Man Sun, who won gold with 6:23.16s. The Uzbekistan pair of Shakhzod Nurmatov and Sobirjon Safaroliyev bagged the bronze clocking 6:33.42s.
India has also entered the final of women's cricket at Asian Games, beating Bangladesh by 8 wickets. The team also set a record by becoming the first team to qualify for the Asian Games final. They will play the final against Pakistan/Sri Lanka.
