Dull show by Indian shooters

Indian shooters put up a dull show on another windy day as they drew a blank for the third day in running with only pistol expert and Melbourne Common wealth Games hero Samaresh Jung coming up with something notable in the Asian Games on Wednesday.Bespectacled Jung, who earned the nickname 'Goldfinger' after grabbing a record five gold medals four years ago in Melbourne missed the men's 25m standard pistol shoot-off for the bronze by one point in a straight final to end 7th overall with 569 points from amongst 39 shooters.

But his two other teammates, Pemba Tamang and Chandrahas Chaudhary, performed very poorly, shooting only 550 and 549 out of 600 to end up 22nd and 23rd respectively and the combined effort cost India a team medal too as they finished fourth with 1668 points, well behind bronze winners North Korea's 1690, from eleven contestants.World women's prone position champion Tejaswini Sawant too put up a disappointing display and brought up the rear, finishing 23rd out of 45 shooters with a shocking 569 points in the women's 3-position rifle event.

Her teammate Lajjakumari Gauswami finished up a rung below her with the same score and Chetenpreet Kaur Nilon secured the 31st spot with 559.The Indian squad ended up a shocking 9th out of 12 competing teams with 1697 points. China won the gold wth 1733, South Korea the silver with 1728 and the bronze was claimed by Iran (1719).In the 25m pistol event, Jung fired 569 out of 600, an movement of ten points from his show in last month's
Common wealth Games in Delhi, with 13 scores of ten but missed the cut off for the third-place play-off by one point with four others logging 570. He finished seventh overall.