Tokyo Olympics Shooting LIVE – 25M Pistol Qualifications LIVE:– Manu Bhaker fought back in Series 3 with brilliant score of 98 to finish Day 1 of Qualification in top 5. Bhaker is 5th after Relay 3 & Rahi Sarnobat is at the 18th position in 25M Pistol Qualifications after the 3rd Relay. The Rapid round in the category will be played on Friday – Follow LIVE Updates
@8:22 – SERIES 3 Starts for Manu Bhaker: She is in 5th place currently, Rahi on 18th position. Manu comes back strongly to score five 10s off her last five shots. After the third relay, she is comfortably seated on the 5th spot.
- 10,10,10,9,9,10,10,10,10,10 – Manu Bhaker jumps to 5th position
@8:05 – SERIES 2 Start for Manu Bhaker: She is in 9th place currently, Rahi on 18th position
- Manu Bhaker finishes Series 2 with 97 @ 9th position
- 10,9,9,10,10,10,10,10,9,10 – Manu Bhaker is currently 9th in standings
- SERIES 2 for Manu Bhaker
@7:25AM: Manu Bhaker ready to shoot in 25M Pistol Qualifications / Rahi Sarnobat in 12th position currently after completing her Precision Round with score of 287 – follow live
- Manu Bhaker starts with 97 in Series 1 – Position 10th
- 10,10,10,9,9,10,9,10,10 – 87 after 9 shots in Series 1 for Bhaker
- 10,10,10,9,9,10,9 – Bhaker on 16th – It’s not going good for the Indians
- 10,10,10,9,9 – Again she has dropped points at 4th and 5th – already she has slipped to 16th
- 10,10,10 – starts well, but can she sustain the start
- Manu Bhaker ready to shoot – can she comeback
- Serbian Arunovic leads this with 292.
- Vitalina Batsarashkina in 2nd place with 100 in Series 3. What a brilliant performance by the Russian. A gold in 10m air pistol, silver in 10m air pistol mixed team and now a 100 to propel her to the second spot after Arunovic
@6:50AM: Manu Bhaker will shoot now in RELAY 3 in 25M Pistol Qualifications, Rahi Sarnobat finishes with average scores earlier
@6:02AM: Tokyo Olympics Shooting LIVE – 25M Pistol Qualifications LIVE:
- MANU BHAKER will shoot now
- 287 – Average Score 9.57 / Not a great score between this field of shooters
- It’s 96, 97 & 94 for RAHI – She finishes the PRECISION ROUND in 7th place @ 287 Points
- Bad Series 3 for Rahi Sarnobat – 94 it is.
- Oh disaster – It’s 8 on SHOT no 5 in Series 3 for Rahi – this will prove costly, she slips to NO 8
- SERIES 3 Starts for RAHI – Manu Bhaker yet to shoot: Rahi finishes 6th among the first batch of 10 shooters after 96 & 97. Meanwhile, the scorecard reads 197-8x for Arunovic. She is still NO – 1.
@5:35AM:Tokyo Olympics Shooting LIVE – 25M Pistol Qualifications LIVE: Rahi Sarnobat first to start – Rahi is off to a brilliant start with three back-to-back 10s
- RAHI is at 6th now after 96 & 97 in first 2
No Score No Score 11 10 16 10 12 10 17 10 13 10 18 9 14 10 19 10 15 9 20 9 - Manu Bhaker yet to shoot
- Good start wasted by Rahi with 3 – 9’s in last 5 shots
- Oh she has a two consecutive 9’s here / have dropped down to 7th
No Score No Score 1 10 6 10 2 10 7 9 3 10 8 9 4 9 9 10 5 10 10 9
@5:20AM: India shooters Manu Bhaker and Rahi Sarnobat will start from firing points 23 and 33, respectively.
RULES OF WOMEN’S 25M PISTOL QUALIFICATION – The participants are asked to shoot from a distance of 25m (27.34 yards) using a 5.6 millimeters (0.22 inches) caliber pistol with a maximum weight of 1.4 kilograms.
The center of the target (total diameter-500 mm) is positioned at 1.4 meters above the floor.
During the qualification round, every athlete has to fire 60 shots, divided in two stages of 30 shots each: a Precision Stage and Rapid Fire Stage.
In Precision, athletes have to fire six five-shot series within five minutes. In Rapid Fire, green lights are turned on for 3 seconds per shot, while the red lights between consecutive greens last for 7 seconds.
The maximum score per shot is 10 points.
25M Pistol Women Qualifications Precision @ 5:30 AM on 29th
25M Pistol Women Qualifications Rapid @ 5:30 AM on 30th
Tokyo Olympics Shooting LIVE: Manu Bhaker, Rahi Sarnobat in action in 25M Pistol Qualifications – Follow LIVE Updates
Tokyo Olympics Shooting LIVE – 25M Pistol Qualifications LIVE: Bhaker will get one last chance to leave her mark at the Games on Thursday after she endured a major weapon malfunction leading to a heartbreaking exit from the women’s 10 air pistol event.
Appearing in her maiden Olympics, the teenager finished a creditable 12th, despite losing nearly 20 minutes during the qualifications after the cocking lever in her pistol broke down, forcing her to go to a designated area for getting it fixed.
Thursday could well turn out to be a new beginning for Bhaker and Indian shooting, provided she and Sarnobat can handle the pressure.
Sarnobat, fresh from an ISSF World Cup stage gold in Osijek, Croatia, leading up to the Games and Bhaker will have to go through two days of qualification on Thursday and Friday, before the top eight are separated after the second rapid fire round.
The 44-strong women’s sport Pistol field on day six of the Olympic Shooting competition, closely resembles the Air Pistol competition of day two and will have all the finalists of that event, barring the Chinese who have changed personnel.
In reigning Asian Games champion Sarnobat, India will have an experienced shooter in the ranks.
Tokyo Olympics Shooting LIVE: What exactly is happening in Indian Shooting Camp?
Tokyo Olympics Shooting LIVE – 25M Pistol Qualifications LIVE: The Indian shooters, tipped to be country’s best medal bet before the Olympics, endured yet another forgettable outing on Tuesday when they crashed out in the qualifying stages of the mixed team events in both pistol and rifle.
– The duo of Saurabh Chaudhary and Bhaker caved in under pressure and failed to qualify for the final of the 10m air pistol mixed team event.
– They finished seventh in Qualification 2 after topping the first phase with 582 at the Asaka Range. Both the 19-year-olds then lost the plot completely when the top eight teams battled it out in the second phase.
– The other Indian team in the event, Abhishek Verma and Yashaswini Singh Deswal, failed to clear Qualification 1 and finished in 17th place, having totalled 564 across six series
– If that was not enough, the rifle duo of Elavenil Valarivan and Divyansh Singh Panwar finished 12th with a total of 626.5 across three series each, while Anjum Moudgil and Deepak Kumar ended 18th out of 29 pairs with an aggregate score of 623.8 later in the day.
– This was after all the pistol and rifle shooters put up disappointing performances in their respective individual events earlier in the Games. Adding to the chaos was federation president Raninder Singh’s promise of a coaching staff overhaul after the Games.
Also not helping their cause are revelations that pistol coaches of the team were not in best of terms, which might have ended up having a bearing on the shooters’ performance as well.
The 15-member Indian shooting contingent has six more starts in the Games and the country’s shooters will be desperate to break the medal jinx in the coming events to silence their critics.
Follow LIVE Updates of Manu Bhaker & Rahi Sarnobat in action in 25M Pistol Qualifications Precision Round on InsideSport.co starting at 5:30AM.
25M Pistol Women Qualifications Precision @ 5:30 AM on 29th
25M Pistol Women Qualifications Rapid @ 5:30 AM on 30th