Olympian Divyansh Singh Panwar, who recently lost his place in the Indian team for the upcoming Baku World Cup, regained his form while Sift Kaur Samra and Vijayveer Sidhu extended their domination in the national selection trials for pistol and rifle here on Friday.
In Delhi’s Karni Singh Shooting Range, Anant Jeet Singh Naruka and Ganemat Sekhon won the men’s and women’s skeet trials respectively.
While at the MP State Shooting Academy Range in Bhopal, Divyansh, a former world number one, was in sensational form, logging a score of 636.3 in the men’s 10m air rifle T4 (fourth trial) qualification round.
In the Bhopal International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup last month, China’s Sheng Lihao had shot 635.4 in qualification en route to gold which currently stands as the world record.
The fact that the Jaipur shooter beat it by almost a point speaks volumes. Besides qualification, he also topped the 25-shot ranking round and then went on to defeat Surya Pratap Singh Banshtu 16-12 in the gold medal match.
Punjab’s Sift Kaur Samra, who won her first ever ISSF medal — a bronze — at the Bhopal World Cup, won the women’s T4 50m rifle 3 positions, putting it across state-mate and Olympian Anjum Moudgil, 16-4, in the gold medal clash.
Tejaswini Sawant, yet another seasoned Olympian in the fray, was third.
In the men’s 25m rapid fire pistol, India international Vijayveer Sidhu won 30 points to outgun Adarsh Singh 30-24 in the medal match to give Punjab another win. Olympic silver medallist Vijay Kumar was third with 17.
Among the junior winners were West Bengal’s Abhinav Shaw in the men’s 10m air rifle, Haryana’s Nikita Kundu who won the women’s 3P junior and Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu, who claimed the junior men’s 25m rapid fire event.
Anant Jeet, Ganemat win in New Delhi
Now a seasoned skeet shooter, Rajasthan’s Anant Jeet Singh Naruka won the men’s skeet trials at the DKSSR with 39 hits in the final. Overnight leader Gurjoat Singh Khangura of Punjab was second with 37 while Olympian Angad Bajwa was third with 17 hits.
The trio had also qualified for the semis in the same order with Anant Jeet and Gurjota logging 123 hits out of 125 to finish 1-2 as the former prevailed in a shoot-off (2-1) to determine rankings. Angad shot 119 in qualification.
In women’s skeet, Ganemat stamped her authority as India’s number one in the event with a facile win. She shot 118 in qualification to finish second to Parinaaz Dhaliwal who topped with 119, then went on to win the semi-final with 29 hits and the final with 37 hits.
Rajasthan’s Darshna Rathore who came second was a full five hits behind her with 32.
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