Rana clinches gold

Chennai: Jaspal Rana captured the 25-metre standard pistol gold in the 15th Asian Games in Doha on Thursday. Though sick, he put up an inspired show to shoot 574 at the Lusail Shooting Range. After starting well with rounds of 96 in the 150-second series, Jaspal Rana finished with a 98 in the difficult 10-second series to beat Byung Taek Park of Korea by three points. Since the 1994 Hiroshima edition, where Rana won gold in the centrefield pistol event, no Indian had won a shooting gold at the Asian Games.
The country's tally now includes four golds: the others came from chess, billiards and kabbadi.
In other events, rower Bajranglal Takhar clinched silver in the single sculls event, 1.39 seconds behind Korean Eun Chul Shin. Dharmesh Sangwan, Jenil Krishnan, Sukhjeet Singh and Satish Joshi picked up another silver in the men's four rowing event. Geet Sethi and Ashok Shandilya won bronze in the billiards men's doubles.