India won three medals in the men's 10-metre air-rifle events at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on September 21, 2026. Himanshu Dhillon took individual silver and Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil bronze after the two shooters and Parth Rakesh Mane had combined for team silver. China's Sheng Lihao won the individual title with 254.2, an Asian and Games record.
Dhillon finished on 252.4, while Patil's bronze-medal score was 230.9. The final's progression shows how close the Indian contest became: Patil had 106.0 after the opening ten shots, ahead of Sheng's 104.9 and Dhillon's 104.8. At the elimination stage that decided bronze, Dhillon reached 231.0, only 0.1 ahead of Patil, before continuing into the gold-medal duel.
The morning qualification had produced a different Indian order. Patil was third overall with 631.8, Dhillon seventh with 630.0 and Mane eleventh with 628.3. Patil and Dhillon advanced to the individual final. Mane closed qualification with a 106.7 series, his best of the six, and his full score contributed to India's team medal despite not reaching the individual final.
India's combined 1890.1 put it 5.9 points above bronze medallist South Korea's 1884.2. China won with 1899.0, exceeding the previous world record of 1898.4 shown on the official result sheet. Its three contributors were Sheng on 635.4, Ma Sihan on 633.0 and Zhang Changhong on 630.6. Thirteen teams appeared in the final team classification.
The team scorecard also records India's strongest combined series as the fourth, worth 317.0, while its sixth series added 315.8. Indonesia finished fourth overall on 1882.5, followed by Iran on 1880.7 and host Japan on 1880.1. Those totals place India's silver within the full team contest rather than treating the individual final scores as part of the team calculation.
