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Gurpreet Singh wins 25m standard pistol gold at Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial
Olympian Gurpreet Singh shot 578 to clinch the men’s 25-metre standard pistol gold in the 21st Kumar Surendra Singh pistol championship at the Madhya Pradesh Academy, Bhopal, on Wednesday.
Gurpreet had won the gold with a record score of 581 in the last edition at the same venue.
Commonwealth Games gold medallist Omkar Singh wont he silver with 571, ahead of Udit Joshi (567).
Mukesh Nelavalli missed the bronze on lesser number of inner-10s, but won the junior gold with his score of 567.
The results:
- Kamesh Srinivasan
Anantjeet wins in men’s skeet at National Shotgun selection trials
Anantjeet Singh Naruka beat Gurfateh Singh Sandhu 5-4 in the shoot-off after the two were tied on 51 in men’s skeet in the fourth National shotgun selection trials at the Madhya Pradesh Academy in Bhopal on Wednesday.
Rituraj Singh Bundela finished third ahead of Atul Singh Rajawat, Karn Vikram Singh and Mohd. Hamza Sheikh.
Olympian Angad Vir Singh Bajwa was ninth with 114, while Gurjoat Singh Khangura was 11th with the same score. World Cup gold medallist Mairaj Ahmad Khan shot 111 for the 19th place among 24.
In women’s skeet, Raiza Dhillon beat World Cup silver medallist Ganemat Sekhon 50-49 for the top spot, after qualifying for the final with a modest score of 110.
Qualification topper Karttiki Singh Shaktawat (116) was fifth behind Areeba Khan and Maheshwari Chauhan. Asees Chhina was the other shooter to make the final.
Parinaaz Dhaliwal (106) and Darshna Rathore (105) finished ninth and tenth respectively.
RESULTS
-Kamesh Srinivasan
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