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Abhinav Deshwal won India’s 15th medal successful shooting astatine the Deaflympics, clinching the golden successful the 25m pistol lawsuit successful Tokyo connected Sunday (November 23, 2025) with a grounds successful qualification.
He changeable a people of 44 successful the last to borderline retired South Korea’s Seung Hwa Lee, who finished connected a people of 43.
Serhii Formin of Ukraine won the bronze portion the different Indian shooter, Chetan Hanmant Sapkal, finished successful 5th place.
Abhinav started the last with 5 cleanable hits, pursuing it up with different 4 hits successful the 2nd series.
He deed the adjacent 18 of 20 shots which included 2 bid of cleanable fives and 2 rounds of 4 hits. He past deed 2 cleanable rounds and followed it up with a circular of 4 hits.
In the 10th and last round, Abhinav deed three, his lowest circular successful the last but it was capable for the shooter to triumph gold.
Earlier successful qualification, Abhinav equalled the World Deaf Qualification grounds and the Deaflympics grounds with a people of 575-13x. Chetan qualified for the last successful 2nd spot with a people of 573-21x.
