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The Air Rifle Mixed Teams: Birthday girl Anuya Prasad and teammate Pranjali Prashant Dhumal completed a 1-2 finish for India in the 10m Air Pistol event of shooting competitions at the 25th Summer Deaflympics currently being held in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday.

Anuya Prasad also broke the Deaf final World Record enroute to winning the gold, and Pranjali broke the qualification world record to book her place in the final. Abhinav Deswal, who equalled the qualification world record, won silver in the men’s event, to take India’s shooting medals to seven at the Deaflympics after two days of competition.

Anuya shot 52.5 in the first series of the final and maintained her lead throughout the competition, and eventually secured gold with a final score of 241.1, which was 4.3 points ahead of Pranjali, who finished with a score of 236.8. Mahla Samiee of Iran won the bronze. Earlier in qualification, Pranjali broke her own World and Deaflympic records in qualification, finishing with a score of 572-12x, bettering the previous records of 568 and 561, respectively.