
Pistol shooters will take aim at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Ranges here in Delhi, as medals in 10m Air pistol events will be decided as competition day one will beunderway tomorrow in the Asian Championship Rifle/Pistol. Indian shooters led by WorldChampion Samrat Rana, World Cup Final Champion Suruchi Singh, Olympic medallist ManuBhaker and Esha Singh will look to give the hosts a strong start in the continental event.All the Finals of the Asian Championship Rifle/Pistol can be streamed LIVE on theFanCode OTT platform.Four finals will be held tomorrow, including the senior men’s and women’s along with the finalsof Junior and Youth men also. Suruchi Singh and Samrat Rana will be one of the favourites towin the gold medal along with Manu Bhaker and Esha Singh in the women’s event. Worldnumber four and world silver medallist Ho Ching Shing from Hong Kong lines up as one of thefavourites for the women's 10m air pistol. She has made the continental final on four occasions,winning silver in 2019. A dark horse for a medal could be Cheng Yen-Ching of Chinese Taipei,ranked 16th in the world. The 19-year-old had a solid performance of 25th in her debut WorldChampionship and even finished fifth on her ISSF World Cup debut in Munich. Thu Vinh Trinhof Vietnam, a two-time Asian bronze medallist and two-time Olympic finalist, will also feature.Current World Champion Samrat Rana will lead the Indian men’s side along with world numbertwo and world bronze medallist Varun Tomar and Sharvan Kumar who finished 12 th in the WorldChampionship. Valeriy Rakhimzhan of Kazakhstan, the world number eight and the ISSF WorldCup silver medallist from Munich, who placed fourth last year in Shymkent, Hsieh Hsiang-Chenof Chinese Taipei and Uzbekistan's world number 25 Mukhammad Kamalov, who placed ninthat the 2025 World Championship, will be the main competitors for the Indian shooters.




