India's veteran shooting trio of Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Mansher Singh and Zoravar Singh Sandhu managed to edge out hosts China by one point for the team bronze medal in the two-day Asian Games men's trap event that concluded on Friday.
The Indian trap members logged 341 points, with Asian record holder Manavjit leading the way, which enabled them to finish one point ahead of China (340).
The gold medal went to Kuwait (352) who edged out Lebanon (351).
But none of the threesome won an individual medal, including Asian record holder Manavjit, who stormed his way back from eighth to third position and qualified for the final only to finish fifth with an aggregate of 136, including 119 in the qualifying round.
Manavjit's qualification sequence was 23, 24, 23, 24 and 25 and he shot 17 in the final.
Mansher secured 113 points (22, 23, 22, 24, 22) to finish a poor 17th from 37 starters while Zoravar was even more pathetic, ending a distant 28th with qualifying score of 109.
He commenced with a very modest 19 before improving to log 22, 23 and 24 before going off the boil again with his last shot which was a 21.
The first bronze from the shot gun events took India's meager tally from shooting to six, made up of three silver and as many bronze medals.
The shot gun events would continue on November 21 with the men's and women's team and individual double trap scheduled, after Saturday's rest day.
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