The Indian shooting duo of Maheshwari Chauhan and Anant Jeet Singh Naruka narrowly missed out on a bronze medal in the skeet mixed team event, finishing fourth at the Paris Olympics on Monday.
Maheshwari and Naruka shot a score of 43, just one point behind China's Yiting Jiang and Jianlin Lyu, who secured the bronze with a score of 44.
In the qualification round, the Indian pair finished fourth after being tied with another team at 146 points at the end of the three-round, 150-shot process, which led to a shoot-off. Maheshwari excelled in her final two rounds with perfect scores of 50/50, while Naruka recorded scores of 25, 23, and 24 in his three rounds.
Earlier, The Indian pair was placed tied second with a score of 49 after the first stage in the qualification, sharing the position with Australia, Korea, France and two Italian teams.
Anant Jeet Singh Naruka scored 25/25 in the first round the qualification while Maheshwari Chauhan shot 24/25 to take India's total to 49.
In the second round, it was Maheshwari's turn to shoot a perfect 25 but Naruka missed two shots each in the 2nd and 5th series to tally 23, which gave them an aggregate score of 48.
In the third round, India got 49 with 25 for Maheshwari and 24 for Naruka.
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