Saurabh Chaudhary lifts gold in Asian Airgun Championship

 Kuwait: Indian shooting star Saurabh Chaudhary bagged his fourth individual gold medal in the 10m air pistol junior men’s event of the Asian Airgun Championship on Thursday.

The 16-year-old, first combined with compatriots Arjun Singh Cheema and Anmol Jain to log a total of 1731 to win the team gold and later fetched the individual gold with 239.8 scoreline in the final to finish with two gold medals.

Arjun  settled for  silver while Chinese Taipei’s Huang Wei-Te got  bronze with a score.

The Indian trio- Sourabh, Arjun, Anmol missed the World and Asian Junior record by a mere point.

Earlier, Saurabh won the gold medal at the Asian Games in August and  golds at the World Shooting Championships in September and the Youth Olympic Games in Argentina last month.

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