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Asian Shooting Championship: Anish Bhanwala delivered a bronze and a Paris 2024 Olympics quota place, the Shooting squad’s 12th overall, competing in the men’s 25m rapid-fire pistol discipline at the ongoing Asian Shooting Championship, here on Monday.

According to information received here, Anish shot 588 to qualify in third-place for the six-man final and then shot 28, before bowing out in a shoot-off with silver medallist Dai Yoshioka of Japan. Korean Lee Gunhyeok won gold with a score of 34 in the eight five-shot rapid-fire series decider.

India have now picked up 30 medals from the continental event including eight gold. Anish’s quota was the fifth India have secured in Changwon.