In Shooting, India’s Arjun Babuta and Elavenil Valarivan set a world record and a Championship record on their way to winning gold in the 10m air rifle mixed team event at the Asian Rifle/Pistol Championship 2026 in New Delhi today.
The Indian pair combined to score 505 points in the final to successfully defend their Asian title.
They finished ahead of the Republic of Korea’s Kim Woorim and Kwon Eunji, who scored 501 points, while Japan’s Naoya Okada and Misaki Nobata took bronze with 437.9 points. The previous record of 502.7 had been set by the German duo Hanna Buehlmeyer and Maximilian Ulbrich at the ISSF Grand Prix in Slovenia last month.
