<p>India's 25m rapid fire team of Vijay Kumar, Pemba Tamang and Gurpreet Singh today bagged the silver medal at the Asian Shooting Championships here but a London Olympics quota continued to elude them.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The women finished sixth in the 50m rifle 3 position event.<br />The Indian trio in men's 25m rapid fire pistol shot identical total scores of 577.<br />As far as individual rankings are concerned, Vijay, who was lying eighth with 286 at the end of first course yesterday, finished seventh, while Pemba ended on eighth position.<br /><br />Gurpreet, who shot 291/300 to be in 4th place after the first course, finished ninth. His bad second-half performance was largely due to a disappointing last card.<br /><br />In the women's event, Rajkumari, with a total score of 578, was individually ranked ninth, Lajja Gauswami (574) was 17th, while Tejaswini Sawant, who shot 570, finished 28th.<br /><br />As far as the rules of rapid fire are concerned, they do not allow carry-over of points into the final unlike all other shooting events.<br /><br />According to the rule, the scores of all shooters start at zero.</p>
<p>India's 25m rapid fire team of Vijay Kumar, Pemba Tamang and Gurpreet Singh today bagged the silver medal at the Asian Shooting Championships here but a London Olympics quota continued to elude them.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The women finished sixth in the 50m rifle 3 position event.<br />The Indian trio in men's 25m rapid fire pistol shot identical total scores of 577.<br />As far as individual rankings are concerned, Vijay, who was lying eighth with 286 at the end of first course yesterday, finished seventh, while Pemba ended on eighth position.<br /><br />Gurpreet, who shot 291/300 to be in 4th place after the first course, finished ninth. His bad second-half performance was largely due to a disappointing last card.<br /><br />In the women's event, Rajkumari, with a total score of 578, was individually ranked ninth, Lajja Gauswami (574) was 17th, while Tejaswini Sawant, who shot 570, finished 28th.<br /><br />As far as the rules of rapid fire are concerned, they do not allow carry-over of points into the final unlike all other shooting events.<br /><br />According to the rule, the scores of all shooters start at zero.</p>