Deaflympics 2025: Abhinav Deshwal & Pranjali Dhumal win gold as India’s medal haul reaches 11

Abhinav Deshwal, Pranjali Dhumal equalled Deaf World and Olympic record in qualification.

Indian shooters continued their fine run at the Deaflympics 2025 in Tokyo, as Abhinav Deshwal and Pranjali Prashant Dhumal clinched the gold medal in the 10m Air Pistol event with a dominating 16-6 win over Ya-Ju Kao and Ming-Jui Hsu of Chinese Taipei.

In the second event of the day, Kushagra Singh Rajawat won bronze in the 50m Rifle Prone event takingIndia’s shooting medal tally to 11 and are the only medals India has won till now in Tokyo.

Abhinav and Pranjali maintained their commanding position from the start of the gold medal match andnever gave their opponents any chance for a comeback.

The pair had earlier equalled the Deaf World and Olympic record in qualification, which was set in the previous Deaflympics by the same pair.

The Indian pair shot a combined score of 569-20x with Abhinav shooting 287-12x (97,95,95) and Pranjali 282-8x (95,94,93) to finish on top in qualification. Both shooters had also won silver medals in the individual event on Monday.

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The second Indian pair consisting of women’s individual champion Anuya Prasad and Rudar VinodKumar could only manage a seventh-place finish in qualification with a combined score of 553-10x, withAnuya shooting 280-5x (93,91,96) and Rudar 273-5x (92,90,91).

Mahla Samiee and Bijan Ghaffari of Iran won the bronze medal overcoming Ukraine’s Sofiia Olenych and Oleksandr Kolodii in the bronze medal match.

In 50m Rifle Prone, Kushagra won the bronze medal with a final score of 224.3. Ukraine’s DmytroPetrenko won the gold shooting 251.0, breaking the Deaf World and Olympic Records. Colin Mueller ofGermany won the silver medal with a score of 245.4.

Mahit Sandhu and Natasha Joshi will be in action tomorrow in 50m 3 Positions women’s event. Mahithas already won a gold and silver in the 10m Air Rifle Mixed team and individual events respectively.

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