Pakistan’s Ghulam Mustafa Bashir has won the bronze medal in the men’s 25m rapid fire pistol event at the Asian Games in Japan.
Bashir scored 22 points in the final on Thursday at the Aichi Prefectural Shooting Range. South Korea’s Lee Gunhyeok and China’s Su Lianbofan both finished on 32 points, and Lee took the gold medal after a shoot-off.
The medal is Pakistan’s sixth at the 2026 Games, and all six are bronze.
Bashir reached the final after finishing sixth in qualification with 578 points and 19 inner tens. He shot 289 in each of the two stages.
Bashir has competed at three Olympic Games: Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024. He won bronze at the 2022 World Championships in Cairo. At the previous Asian Games in Hangzhou, he reached the final and finished sixth.
