India Claims Women's 50m Rifle 3P Team Silver at Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026

Key facts

• India won the silver medal in the women's 50m rifle 3 positions team event at the Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026 with a combined score of 1763, finishing 10 points behind gold medallist China, while Kazakhstan took bronze with 1754.
• The Indian team comprised Ashi Chouksey, Tilottama Sen and Vidarsa K. Vinod, with Tilottama Sen (590-32x) and Vidarsa K. Vinod (588-29x) qualifying for the individual final, where they finished fourth and fifth respectively.
• China's Han Jiayu won the individual gold with 359.0, a new Asian record, and compatriot Zhang Liyuan took silver with 358.8; China's team score of 1773 equalled its continental and Games record set at Hangzhou 2023.
• The qualification began at 6:15am IST and the individual final at 9:30am IST on September 26, 2026, at the Aichi Prefectural General Shooting Gallery.
• The continental qualification and Games record of 594 is jointly held by China's Xia Siyu and India's Sift Kaur Samra, while the world record of 596 belongs to Norway's Jenny Stene from the 2022 European Championships in Wroclaw, Poland.