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Fuyang Yinhu Sports Centre:  Sift Kaur Samra, a 22-year-old MBBS student from Faridkot in Punjab, made history at the Asian Games at the Asian Games becoming the first Indian to win a gold medal in rifle shooting as the country dominated the shooting ranges on Wednesday by claiming seven medals at the Fuyang Yinhu Sports Centre in Hangzhou.

Sift Kaur, who had a year back contemplated quitting the sport altogether as she was finding it difficult to juggle studies and sports, persevered with shooting and made history for India, winning the gold medal in the Women's 50m Rifle 3-Positions Individual with a world record score of 469.6.

She improved on the previous world record of 467.0 set by Seonaid McIntosh of Great Britain in the ISSF World Cup in Baku in May this year. Sift finished ahead of Qiongyue Zhang of China (462.3) and compatriot Ashi Choksey (451.9). It could easily have been a golf-silver result for India but for a poor score by Ashi Chouksey on her final shot that dropped her to the third position.