Liverpool beat Man City 3-1 to extend Premier League lead PAGE 14 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2019 Qatar’s skeet team takes gold Three golds, record Olympic quotas for India VINAY NAYUDU DOHA EVEN as a sand storm and heavy rain lashed Qatar on Sunday afternoon, the Na- tional Skeet shooting team of Nasser al Attiyah, Rashid Hamad and Masoud Hamad stuck to their task at the Losail Shooting Complex to claim gold at the 14th Asian Shoot- ing Championship. The Qatar trio staved off the challenge from Kuwaiti and Kazakhstan shooters to take the top podium spot scor- ing 360 shots against Kuwait’s 358, and Kazakhstan’s 357. Qatar’s shotgun shooters Nasser al Attiyah, Rashid Hamad and Masoud Hamad on the podium after they Qatar’s six-time Olympian and 2012 London Games medallist Nasser al Attiyah with the National flag at In the individual competi- won the men’s skeet team event at the 14th Asian Shooting Championship at Losail on Sunday. the Losail Shooting Complex. tion though, none of the Qatari shooters could turn lucky with dust and rain adding to their troubles. All the three, along with five others made it to the qualification shoot-off with identical scores of 120, but missed a few clay discs to miss out from the final six. While Rashid Hamad end- ed up 7th (120+13), Attiyah was 8th (120+13) and Masoud Hamad 9th (120+11). India’s Angad Bajwa went on to take the gold and his compatriot and Mairaj Ahmad Khan the silver. Both shooters ended on 56 points but Ba- jwa won a shoot-off 6-5. Ku- The men’s skeet individual podium finishers Angad Vir Singh Bajwa wait’s Saud Habib claimed the and Mairaj Ahmad Khan of India, and Saud Habib of Kuwait. bronze (45). Speaking of the home show, Attiyah said, “Our con- Results & Schedule centration was good as such. SKEET MEN 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team Yesterday we had good results, TEAM 1. India (Manu Bhaker, Abhishek Verma) 387- but today we couldn’t do any- 1. Qatar (Nasser al Attiyah, Rashid Hamad, 18x; 2. India (Yashaswini Singh Deswal, Saurabh thing because there was sand- Masoud Hamad) 360; 2. Kuwait (Abdullah al Chaudhary) 387-14x; 3. Iran (Golnoush storm and a lot of rain. Rashidi, Saud Habib, Mohammad al Daihani) Sebghatollahi, Javad Foroughi) 386-14x 358; 3. Kazakhstan (Vadislav Mukhamediyev, “Yet, we did our job win- David Pochivalov, Alexandr Mukhamediyev) 357 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team Junior ning the team gold medal. Individual 1. India (Esha Singh, Sarabjot Singh) 569-9x, “Individually, we were in 1. Angad Vir Singh Bajwa (IND) 56 (Shoot-off 6); 381-9x; 2. Korea (Minseo Kim, Yunho Sung) the shoot-off but all three of 2. Mairaj Ahmad Khan (IND) 56 (Shoot-off 5); 3. 574-14x, 378-14x; 3. China (Shuyao Li, Jinbo us were not lucky. There were Saud Habib (KUW) 45 Guo) 559-18x, 376-9x eight qualifiers with a score of 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men 120 and it was stiff. But this is 1. Jonghyun Kim (459.9); 2. Zhonghao Zhao MONDAY SCHEDULE how the sport is. You can’t do Spectators at the Losail Shooting Complex during the men’s skeet final under grey skies at the 14th Asian Shooting Championship. (CHN) 459.1; 3. Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar Finals Only (IND) 449.1 Team: 1. China (Changhong Zhang, 1.15pm: 10m Air Pistol Men Junior much in such situations. Zhonghao Zhao, Yuncong Yao) 3505-182x; 2. 1.30pm: Skeet men Junior “I’m glad for the team be- has two more events including car rallyist. Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar Zhonghao Zhao (459.1). Korea (Jonghyun Kim, Sang Do Kim, Min Ho 3pm: Skeet Women Junior cause it’s a strong team and to a World Cup in New Delhi to Bajwa and Mairaj, howev- won a bronze in the Men’s India also claimed the Cheon) 3499-178x; 3. 3.30pm: 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team Junior. win an Asian championship make the grade. er, booked India’s record 14th 50m Rifle 3 Positions to bag 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team gold is great,” he said. “It will not be easy to quali- and 15th Olympic quota plac- India’s 13th quota place. gold and silver after Manu Attiyah, who is a six-time fy for the Olympics but we will es with their gold and silver Tomar shot 449.1 in the Bhaker and Abhishek Verma Iranian duo Golnoush Seb- Pistol Mixed Team Junior gold Olympian and a bronze med- see. I have some good results show. The Indian contingent eight-man finals to finish defeated team-mates Sau- ghatollahi and Javad Foroughi medal with the pairing of Esha allist at the London Games in and I also hope to receive a had arrived in Qatar having al- third on the podium behind rabh Chaudhary and Yashas- saw off China’s Qian Wang and Singh and Sarabjot Singh pre- 2012, is also aiming to make it wild card,” said the shooter, ready booked six places. gold medallist Kim Jonghyun wini Singh Deswal 16-10 in Wei Pang 17-15 for bronze. vailing over Korean Minseo to Tokyo 2020. He, however, who is also Middle East’s ace Earlier in the day, teenager (459.9) of Korea and Chinese the final. India also won the 10m Air Kim and Yunho Sung. Quick read Herrmann double keeps Gladbach Qatar, Yemen through to 2020 AFC U-19 C’ship four points clear in Bundesliga their newfound numerical ad- BERLIN: Borussia Moenchengladbach maintained their four-point The two sides play vantage, equalising through a lead at the top of the Bundesliga on Sunday as Patrick Herrmann close range Resul Chopanov vol- scored twice in an emphatic 3-1 home win over Werder Bremen. RB out an absorbing ley in the 63rd minute, before Leipzig, who won at Hertha Berlin, and defending champions Bayern 1-1 draw at Aspire a horror stretch for Sri Lanka Munich, who routed Dortmund saw Hashika Navodha become 4-0 at the Allianz Arena, had both TNN/AFC the second player sent off in the trimmed Gladbach’s lead to just DOHA 66th minute, before Aly Bor- a point with their victories on jakov made it 3-1 with a sweet Saturday. QATAR held on to book their strike on the outside of his foot Gladbach finished with 10 ticket to the AFC U-19 Cham- a minute later. men after goalscorer Ramy pionships Uzbekistan 2020 Sajid pulled one back for Sri Bensebaini was sent off late on after a fiercely fought 1-1 draw Lanka with a sensational 80th- for a second yellow card before against Yemen at the Aspire minute solo effort, but a poach- Bremen midfielder Leonardo Bit- Academy on Sunday. er’s finish from Myratberdiyev tencourt netted a late goal deep Both teams knew a point with a minute remaining gave Moenchengladbach’s French into added time. It was a week- each would be enough for them the forward the goal his play forward Marcus Thuram and end to remember for Herrmann, to qualify and were evenly had merited as Turkmenistan German midfielder Patrick Her- whose wife gave birth to their matched in a tight contest. The showed what they were capable rmann (left) celebrate the 3-1 first child on Friday. “Before the young Al Annabi go through of in a morale-boosting win. victory against Werder Bremen match, I hadn’t noticed that the as top of the group with seven Qatar U-19 players and coaching staff celebrate their qualification for the AFC U-19 Championship Uzbeki- The 11 group winners and on Sunday. (AFP) birth had given me a big boost,” points, same as Yemen but en- stan 2020 at the Aspire Academy on Sunday. four best runners-up will join said Herrmann. “I’m going to pick joy a better goal difference. Uzbekistan in the 2020 Finals. them up from the hospital afterwards.” Having won their earlier level when Ahmed Maher sent but they delivered a memora- ties in the first half. Tajikistan have already Hosts Gladbach took the lead with two goals inside 107 sec- matches in Group B, Fabio Ce- his effort across goal beating Qa- ble parting gift to fans in Doha, Those misses looked par- qualified as Group C winners onds. sar’s wards drew first blood just tar’s Yousef Balideh. Both teams putting on a pulsating clash ticularly costly when Sri Lan- and should Uzbekistan finish ei- Midfielder Laszlo Benes whipped in a free-kick and left-back before half time. went in search of the winner but which included six goals and ka’s Muhammed Sajid open- ther top of Group F of the Quali- Bensebaini out-jumped the Bremen defence to power home his Captain Naif al Hadrami settled for a point each. two red cards. ing the scoring with a looping fiers or are among the best four header on 20 minutes. curled in a beautiful freekick Meanwhile, Turkmenistan Turkmenistan had the up- header in the 43rd minute, second-placed teams, the fifth The second followed almost immediately from a counter-attack, from 25 yards to score Qatar’s added a positive final chapter per hand early and would have but the South Asians found best runners-up will qualify. when French striker Marcus Thuram drew Bremen goalkeeper Jiri 10th goal of the qualifiers and to their campaign, earning a 4-2 been disappointed not to have themselves a man short when Group A of the Qualifiers - Pavlenka to present Herrmann with a simple tap-in.