Indian shooter Sift Kaur Samra rewrote history as she smashed the Asian Games, Asian, and World Records and clinched gold in the Women’s 50m rifle 3 positions event during Day Four of the Asian Games 2022 held in Hangzhou. This victory marked India’s first individual gold at the 2022 edition of the Games and their fifth gold medal overall. The prior four gold medals had been won in various team events, in shooting, women’s cricket, and equestrian sports. Ashi Chouksey, another Indian athlete who was in contention in the same event, clinched the bronze medal.
The 22-year-old shooter Sift Kaur Samra, who is a first-year MBBS student at the GGS Medical College, Punjab, achieved a total score of 469.6, surpassing the previous world record held by Seonaid McIntosh earlier in the year in Baku by 2.6 points. Sift’s performance was so dominant that the silver medalist, China’s Qiongyue Zhang, managed a total score of 462.3 and trailed the Indian shooter by 7.3 points.
How did the Twitter celebrate victory of Sift Kaur Samra?
𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁!
🥇🌟Sift Kaur Samra breaks records, clinching GOLD, while the trio – Manu Bhaker, Rhythm Sangwan & Esha Singh add another golden feather to India’s cap at #AsianGames!🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/k6atiBlTwU
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) September 27, 2023
GOLD FOR 🇮🇳 WITH A WORLD RECORD!
Huge applause for Sift Samra Kaur, who has secured 🇮🇳’s 1st Individual Gold🥇at the #AsianGames2022 👏@SiftSamra‘s Gold in the Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Position event was achieved through unbelievable and surreal shooting, displaying incredible… pic.twitter.com/M1Sg1aB9e6
— Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) September 27, 2023
A brilliant gold by Sift Kaur Samra in women’s 50m Rifle 3 Position. A new World Record of 469.6 too !! . 5th gold for India at #AsianGames2023 . Bronze for Ashi Chouksey too. Well done both . pic.twitter.com/Wj07BdR7kV
— Rahul Bhutani (@BhutaniRahul) September 27, 2023
GOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDD!!!😍😍😍🥳🥳🥳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
SIFT KAUR SAMRA!! WHAT A STAR!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
First Paris Quota & now AG 🥇!!
And Ashi adds🥉(even though she clearly felt the nerves at the end, else cud have been 1-2)
50m 3pos women used to be a weak event for us. Not any more!!
— Kapil Choudhary (@kapil857) September 27, 2023
Watch it, drink it in. Samra Sift Kaur with World Record, Asian Games Record and Gold medal 🔥😀 pic.twitter.com/LvP5HFmc4x
— Subhayan Chakraborty (@CricSubhayan) September 27, 2023
However, the 21-year-old Indian Ashi Chouksey faltered just towards the end with a score of 8.9 in her last shot, which relegated her from the second position to move to third. This error allowed the Chinese athlete to clinch the silver medal with a mere 9.9 score. Owing to this, Ashi Chouksey had to settle for the bronze medal, finishing with a total score of 451.9.
What happened during the qualification round?
Before her spectacular victory in the final round, Sift Kaur Samra had also set a new Asian Games record in the qualification round with a remarkable 594 out of 600, alongside China’s Xia Siyu. Xia Siyu claimed the top position due to higher inner 10 scores, which are closer to the center of the target, in the qualification round.
Silver medal in the team event of the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions
Earlier in the day, both Sift Kaur Samra and Ashi Chouksey, along with Manini Kaushik, had won the silver medal in the team event of the same competition as they achieved a cumulative score of 1764. However, China clinched the gold medal in the team event, with a combined total of 1773. South Korea won the bronze medal as the three shooters scored a total of 1756.
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