Asian Games shooting: Vijay wins bronze in 10m air pistol

Guangzhou: India’s Vijay Kumar won bronze in the men’s 10 metres air pistol event at the Asian Games while the team finished fourth here Sunday.

Vijay scored 680.4 points (579+101.4) to grab third place. South Korean Lee Dae-Myung (685.8) won the gold while Chinese Tan Zonglian (684.5) the silver.

In the team event, Vijay (579), Gurpreet Singh (573) and Omkar Singh (568) shot 1,720 to finish fourth. Only Vijay made the cut for the finals at eighth position. South Korea –Daemyung (585), Jin Jongoh (581) and Lee Sangdo (580) — won the team gold with a total of 1,746 points. Chinese Zongliang (585), Pu Qifeng (580) and Pang Wei (578) shot 1,743 for the silver. Japan’s Tomoyuki Matsuda (577), Kojiro Horimizu (575) and Susumu Kobayashi (572) totalled 1,724 to grab the bronze.