Tokyo, Jul 27(UNI) India's shooting campaign received a further setback as its shooters in the mixed team events in the air pistol and air rifle made early exits after a poor show here on Tuesday.
In the 10m air pistol event, Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker failed to qualify for the mixed team medal matches in qualifying stage 2, while Abhishek Verma and Yashaswini Singh Deswal, exited after finishing 17th in qualifying stage 1.
Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary made a poor start and finished seventh with a total score of 380 (Saurabh 194/200 and Manu 186/200). To qualify they needed to finish in the top four for any of the two medal matches from among the eight teams in the field.