Shymkent, Aug. 23 -- Indian shooters Elavenil Valarivan and Arjun Babuta clinched a gold medal in the 10m air rifle mixed team event at the Asian Shooting Championship 2025, which was played in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, on Saturday.

Elavenil Valarivan and Arjun Babuta, both Olympians, dominated the People's Republic of China's Peng Xinlu and Lu Dingke in the final and won the contest 17-11 to land the top podium spot. Earlier, Valarivan and Babuta had shot 634.0 to top the qualifiers, as per Olympics.com.

Their Indian compatriots, Mehuli Ghosh and Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil, finished second in the qualifiers with 632.6 but didn't make the gold medal match as only one team from a country can qualify for a medal match.

Consequently, Valariva...