Indian shooter Tushar Mane bagged a silver medal within the Men’s 10m Air Rifle occasion at the continued Youth Olympic Games. Mane scored a complete of 247.5 points to complete 2nd at the podium, while Grigorii Shamakov of Russia clinched gold with 249.2 points. Aleksa Mitrovic of Serbia settled for a bronze medal with a score of 227.9 factors.
The medal is India’s first within the ongoing edition of the tournament.
In the qualification spherical held in advance within the day, Mane had shot 623.7 to finish third and qualify for the very last.
India is being represented through forty six athletes in thirteen sports in the prestigious occasion. This is India’s largest ever contingent on the Youth Olympics.
India won two medals -- a silver and a bronze -- within the closing Youth Olympics in 2014 in Nanjing in China.