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Last Update: April 18, 2023, 22:12 IST
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Manavjit Singh Sandhu and Rajeshwari Kumari won the Shotgun National Selection Trials while Sarabjot Singh and Anuradha Devi won the T3 and T4 Rifle/Pistol trials
Former world champion and four-time Olympian Manavjit Singh Sandhu drew on all his experience to win the men’s trap event at the Shotgun National Selection Trials, which concluded here on Tuesday.
India’s international and national record holder Rajeshwari Kumari took part in the women’s trap T3 (3rd) trial at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range to boost her confidence ahead of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun starting in Cairo from April 25. Won.
India’s most recent ISSF World Cup gold medalist Sarabjot Singh of Haryana won the men’s 10m air pistol T4 trial, while state-mate Anuradha Devi won the women’s air pistol T4 match in Bhopal, where the T3 and T4 rifle/pistol trials also ended.
After conceding five goals on the first day of qualification, Manavjeet needed two strong rounds to give himself a chance on the second day. After a shoot-off to decide the rankings, he finished fourth with rounds of 24 and 25.
He then shot 21 out of 25 birds in the second semi-final to finish second and make it to the final.
In the final, he was the first man to miss and he missed early, but by his own admission, the focus increased and he finished with 14 straight hits to end Laxjit Singh Sindhu’s challenge with three rounds to spare. Gave.
Manav hit 29 of the first 32 targets in the final as against Lakshyajeet’s 25.
Rajeshwari also had to endure shoot-offs, some of them on her way to the final. First in qualifying to determine the ranking, where she finished seventh, and then in the semi-finals, where she beat former Commonwealth Games champion Shreyasi Singh.
In the final, however, she was calm and focused, shooting 30 to win to second-place Manish Keer’s 27.
Bakhtiyaruddin Malek and Ashima Ahlawat topped the junior men’s and women’s trap sections with scores of 117 and 114 respectively.
Sarabjot wins again, Anuradha surprises Palak
In Bhopal, Sarabjot continued his winning form, where he won his first career ISSF World Cup gold a month ago, with a 16-12 win over Punjab’s Arjun Singh Cheema in the men’s 10m air pistol T4 trial gold match. was defeated
Sarabjot’s best friend Shiv Narwal had won 17-7 against him in the T3 trial on Monday, after which Arjun suffered the same result in the second day’s race.
The field featured former world number one Saurabh Chowdhary and finished fifth in qualifying and eighth overall with a score of 582.
Sarabjot was third in qualifying with 583 before heading to the ranking round, while Arjun came second in the ranking round but topped qualification with a score of 586.
Anuradha Devi defeated Palak 17-11 in the women’s 10m air pistol T4 trials.
Earlier, Palak had topped the ranking round with a score of 579 as well as Anuradha with scores of 573 and 250.6 in the ranking round with a score of 252.5.
Both also won in the junior 10m air pistol category when they went to Haryana, where Sagar Bhargava and Varsha Singh emerged winners.
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