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Air Rifle Individual:  A comparatively bad score of 9.9 on the 16th turn put paid to the hopes of young Indian shooter Ramita Thapar as the 19-year-old had to be satisfied with a bronze medal in the Women's 10m Air Rifle Individual section at the 19th Asian Games shooting competition here on Sunday.

Ramita, who was sharing the second spot at that time slipped down and though she shot scores of 10.0, 10.5, 10.7, 10.8, 10,7, and 10.4 after that and managed to win the bronze medal with a score of 230.1. China's Yuting Huang bagged the gold medal with an Asian Games record score of 252.7 while her compatriot Jiayu Han claimed the silver with a score of 251.3.

However, it was a good day for India as the shooters made a fine start by winning silver and bronze medals on the first day of competitions.