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The men's pistol team clinched a silver medal, while Sandeep Sejwal won a rare bronze in swimming but India slipped to the 16th position in the overall standings with a tally of 17 medals on the seventh day at the Asian Games on Friday.
The pistol team, spearheaded by London Olympic Games silver medallist Vijay Kumar and including Pemba Tamang and Gurpreet Singh, clinched the second place with a total score of 1740, two behind gold medallists China, in the 25m centre fire pistol competition.
With the addition of two more medals, India dropped a rung to 16th in the tally with a haul of one gold, two silver and 14 bronze medal so far. China continued to be at the top with 179 medals (91-49-39), followed by South Korea (31-37-36) and Japan (30-42-35).
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