After securing both individual skeet titles yesterday, the host nation Kazakhstan won the mixed team gold medal too at the Asian Shotgun Cup in Almaty.
Eduard Yechshenko and Assem Orynbay were victorious again, comfortably beating Rashid Saleh Al-Athba and Reem Al Sharshani from Qatar in the gold medal match.
Gold Medal Match
Only a shoot-off could separate the two teams in qualification, as they finished three ahead of third-placed, Kuwait.
After two rounds, Orynbay and Yechshenko took a 14-12 lead and continued to improve that margin in the next round, missing just one shot to Qatar's two to make it a three-point gap.
While the odd mistake was made by Yechshenko, Orynbay was incredibly consistent - hitting 21 targets in a row. Even with a perfect fifth round for Reem Al-Sharshani, her efforts could not bring down the difference, with eight successful shots at the end of the final.
Both Kazakhs had a perfect last round to confirm the gold medal would go their way with the score finishing 43-38.
Bronze Medal Matches
A dramatic shoot-off saw Japanese duo Shotaro Toguchi and Yuka Kojima defeat Kuwait's Abdullah Al-Rashidi and Eman Al-Shamaa for bronze.
The pairs seemed to be so evenly-matched with Japan taking a one-shot lead in the third round thanks to an errorless run from Kojima. The next two rounds saw identical cards for the teams, matching and missing together. While Japan had looked solid for the past few rounds, it was a disastrous final eight shots - only hitting four targets. Kuwait needed five to tie and six to win. Unfortunately, Al-Rashidi missed twice and Al-Shamaa had to hit all of hers for victory. Unfortunately, one was missed and the contest went to a shoot-off.
Both teams cleared their opening targets, but Al-Rashidi recorded a miss and Al-Shamaa missed two, meaning Japan only had to hit two targets. Toguchi struck one and missed one, but Kojima got Japan over the line by scoring twice.
In the second bronze medal match, Bahrain's Tammar Al-Watt and Latifa Al-Najem had an easier route to victory against Zhao Haolei and Li Mengyu from China.
From the off, Bahrain had a significant advantage as they successfully hit all eight targets, while Zhao missed one and Li missing another. Things went from bad to worse when Zhao missed another two and Li missed three. Bahrain would extend their lead to eight.
From there, China's form improved - outscoring or matching the Bahrainis in round three and four. A poor fifth round brought the margin back to eight shots, meaning China had to hit every target remaining to stand a mathematical chance. Li missed one target and Bahrain were confirmed as the other medallists with the score ending 38-30.