Anantjeet Singh Naruka
♦ Olympian Anantjeet Singh Naruka won India’s first senior gold medal at the ongoing Asian Shooting Championship 2025 as he bagged the men’s skeet crown in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, on 20 August 2025. ♦ He scored 57 off a possible 60 in a tense final to finish above Mansour Al-Rashidi of Kuwait. ♦ The bronze medal went to Qatari shooter Ali Ahmed Al-Ishaq, who shot 43. ♦ This was also Naruka’s first-ever individual gold medal at the Asian Championships. ♦ The shotgun shooter, who represented India at the Paris 2024 Olympics, was forced to settle for the silver at the last edition in Kuwait in 2024.