Tokyo, Nov. 21 -- India's Shourya Saini clinched the silver medal in the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men's event at the 25th Summer Deaflympics in Tokyo, marking the country's 13th medal in shooting at the ongoing Games.
Shourya, who is the current world champion, broke his own Deaf world qualification record and set a new Deaflympics world record enroute to the finals. In the finals, he scored 450.6 points, finishing 9.2 points behind Germany's Erik Matthias Hess, who not only claimed the gold but also broke the Deaf World finals record and the Deaflympics record. Dmytro Petrenko of Ukraine won the bronze medal.
In the finals, Shourya hit 151.0 in the kneeling series of 15 shots followed by 151.1 in the prone series. He then hit 99.3 in the fi...