Sift Kaur Samra. (Credit: Twitter)
Samra claimed her second consecutive ladies’s 50m rifle 3-positions title, whereas Sekhon and Naruka took house the ladies’s and males’s skeet titles respectively.
Reigning Asian Games gold medallist Sift Kaur Samra cinched her second consecutive ladies’s 50m rifle 3-positions title, getting the higher of senior Punjab state-mate Anjum Moudgil within the National Shooting Championship on Wednesday.
Ganemat Sekhon and Anantjeet Singh Naruka, arguably India’s primary ladies’s and males’s skeet shooters at current, added one other feather to their cap by profitable maiden particular person senior nationwide titles on the Karni Singh Ranges.
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Sift shot 465.7 within the last to clinch gold, pushing Anjum (463.8) to second spot. Ashi Chouksey of Madhya Pradesh got here third with a rating of 452.
Anjum took the lead after the primary 15 ‘kneeling’ positions pictures, however Sift overtook her after the 15 ‘prone’ pictures and by no means seemed again.
Whatever hopes Anjum had of overhauling Sift within the last, evaporated with a poor 9.8 on her forty third shot.
Sift and Anjum additionally earned the crew gold for Punjab.
Earlier, younger Haryana shooter Nischal created a brand new {qualifications} nationwide file with a rating of 595. That effort helped her high the spherical with Sift taking second place with a rating of 593. Ashi was third with 590, whereas Anjum bagged the eighth and last qualifying spot with a rating of 587.
In Skeet, Punjab’s Ganemat and Rajasthan’s Anantjeet took contrasting paths in direction of the identical consequence.
Ganemat shot a below-par 116 in qualification and needed to come by means of a five-way shoot-off for 4 last qualifying locations, earlier than capturing down 56 targets to win the 60-shot ladies’s last.
Qualifiers chief Zahra Deesawala was second with 55 hits whereas Sanjana Sood was third with 44.
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In males’s skeet, Anantjeet shot at a special stage, registering a pillar to put up victory.
He topped the qualifiers with a 123 out of 125. The subsequent finest within the subject was 121.
In the six-man last, he gunned down 58 out of 60 targets to depart silver-winning Munek Battula effectively behind on 55. Bhavtegh Gill received bronze hitting 45 out of the primary 50 targets.
Earlier this yr, Ganemat received two medals together with a gold and silver in ISSF World Cups whereas Anantjeet received an Asian Games silver in males’s skeet at Hangzhou.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – PTI)
