India’s shooters add another medal on Day 4 of Asian Games

India’s shooters added another medal on Day 4 of the Asian Games 2026, a bronze in the women’s skeet team event.

Raiza Dhillon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Maheshwari Chauhan combined for 331 points on September 23.

China won gold with 346, and Kazakhstan won silver.

It takes India’s shooting medal count to 7 at these Games.

India’s earlier shooting medals came in the 10m air rifle events.

Kazakhstan took silver.

The medal is India’s 7th in shooting at the Asian Games 2026.

India’s shooters had already won medals earlier in the Games in the men’s and women’s 10m air rifle events.

Himanshu Dhillon, Rudrankksh Patil and Parth Mane won team silver in the men’s 10m air rifle, with Dhillon and Patil adding individual medals.

Elavenil Valarivan and India’s women’s 10m air rifle team won silver medals on the opening day of shooting competition.

India’s shooting squad has performed consistently across recent multi-sport events, including previous Asian Games and the Olympics.

The Asian Games 2026 are being held in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, from September 19 to October 4.

Skeet shooting involves competitors shooting at clay targets launched from two trap houses at varying angles.

India’s overall medal tally at the Games has been rising steadily through the first four days of competition.

Suchika Tariyal won bronze in mixed martial arts earlier in the Games, India’s first medal in that sport at the Asian Games.

India’s men’s hockey and cricket teams have also delivered strong results at these Games, adding to the overall medal count.

Shooting events at the Asian Games are contested across rifle, pistol and shotgun disciplines, including skeet and trap.

India has traditionally fielded strong squads in rifle and pistol shooting at recent multi-sport Games.

Team events in shooting require consistent scoring from all three members, since the lowest of three individual scores can affect the overall total.

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