Ganemat Sekhon and Anantjeet Singh Naruka, arguably India's number one women's and men's skeet shooters on Wednesday, added another feather to their cap, winning a maiden individual senior national title at New Delhi's Dr Karni Singh Shooting range
Manvi Jain of Madhya Pradesh, won the junior women's 25m standard pistol title at the ongoing 66th National Shooting Championship Competitions (NSCC) for pistol events, being held at the M.P. State Shooting Academy range in Bhopal
Olympian Manu Bhaker won the junior women's air pistol with a similarly tight 17-13 victory over Telangana's Esha Singh. Rhythm was yet again in bronze position however she did win the gold in the Youth category, with a 16-12 win over Sanskriti.
Anish Bhanwala won the men's and junior men's RFP titles along with the team golds in both those events to register a red-letter day on the personal front. In the process, he beat his own national record score of 588 in qualifying to top the 112 strong field with a score of 590. He had set t
Manu and Sarabjot had earlier topped the qualification round as well with a combined score of 575, where the Karnataka pair had finished second with 573 to setup the title clash. Punjab and ONGC shared the bronze medals.
Sarabjot defeated Gaurav Rana of the Air Force 16-4 in the gold medal match for the individual crown and also partnered with Sumit Raman and Anmol Jain to pick up the team gold in the event with a combined effort of 1736.
In a stellar show, Manu representing Haryana outgunned CRPF's Pushpanjali Rana 33-27 in the women's medal match at the MP Shooting Academy range in Bhopal and then her state-mate Vibhuti Bhatia 32-24, in the junior women's title round to bag an individual double. She had already secured both
Rhythm Sangwan and Manu Bhaker also qualified for the top eight ranking rounds in the individual competitions of both events. Rhythm shot 588 to top both the qualifications while Manu qualified seventh in the women's individual and fourth in the juniors with a score of 577.
Punjab's Arjun overcame Assam's Hriday Hazarika 16-8 in the gold medal match at the Vattiyoorkkavu Shooting Range in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, where the Rifle nationals are taking place as read in a statement issued by the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI).
Rudrankksh's score of 631.70 in qualification, meant that he came second in the Men's Air Rifle while topping the fields in the Junior Men's and Youth Men's categories, to make the second ranking round in all three events.
New Delhi [India], Dec 19 (ANI): Himachal's Zeena Khitta on Thursday won gold in the new national champion in the Women's 10m Air Rifle at the ongoing 63rdNational Shooting Championship Competitions (63rd NSCC) Rifle/Pistol in Bhopal.