Asian Games 2023: Palak Gulia, Esha Singh score double podium finish
Palak Gulia and Esha Singh powered to a gold-silver finish in 10m air pistol event for India at the Hangzhou Asian Games on Friday. 17-year-old Palak shot 242.1 in the finals for an Asian Games record to swell the country's tally in the sport to 17 — six of them gold.
Pakistan's Talat Kishmala settled for a bronze after giving a tough fight to Esha.
This is the first major individual medal for Palak in an international competition after she came on the shooting scene just last year. Earlier, Esha Singh and Palak Gulia were part of the triumvirate that won the 10m air pistol team silver.
Earlier in the day, the young trio of Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (591), Swapnil Kusale (591) and Akhil Sheoran (587), overcame the Chinese challenge with a world record score of 1769 to take the top podium finish.
Hosts China finished with 1763 points while South Korea were a distant third with 1,748 points. (With Agency Inputs)
