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Vijay wins rapidfire gold

Kirti Patil

BULL'S EYE: Vijay Kumar of Army won the 25m rapidfire pistol. — Photo: Rajeev Bhatt

INDORE: Awfully low scores were the order of the day in the rapidfire pistol event as Vijay Kumar won the men's 25m event in the 50th National shooting championship at the Reoti Ranges here on Monday.

Vijay Kumar himself was way off target, qualifying for the final with a total of 575, while his fellow Army teammate, Pemba Tamang, was 562 going into the final. The last shooter to make it to the final, Harpeet Singh of Navy, made it with an abysmal 548.

There was slight malfunctioning in the target motors, but there was no reason for shooters of calibre to get disturbed till the machines were rectified.

Distant second

Vijay shot the five-match series at 45.8, 48.0, 47.9, 48.8 to total 765.5. Tamang was a distant second with a final score of 189.8 for a total of 751.8. Army completed a 1-2-3 finish as Ram Kishan edged out Maharashtra's Ronak Pandit.

Jung wins

Later in the evening, Samaresh Jung became the champion of champions in air pistol. In the eight-player field drawn from the 16 finalists in men's and women's events, Jung's vast experience saw him clinch the title and cash award of Rs. 15,000.

Sonia and Anisa were the two women in the field, but were eliminated first, before Jung and Deepak Sharma made the final. Sharma made the charge with a 10.4 in the first of the three shots final. Jung had 9.4, but recovered to shoot 10.1 while Sharma succumbed under pressure to managed 7.3 and lost out.

The results (figures in parenthesis are scores in final): Men: 25m rapid fire pistol: 1. Vijay Kumar (Army) 575 (45.8, 48.0, 47.9, 48.8) 765.5, 2. Pemba Tamang (Army) 562 (42.3, 50.9, 47.8, 48.8) 751.8, 3. Ram Kishan (Army) 562 (48.3, 44.1, 48.4, 46.6) 749.4.

Team: 1. Army (Tamang, Kishan, Vijay Kumar) 1699, 2. Navy (Mukesh Kumar, Harpreet Singh, Rahul Panwar) 1627, 3. Maharashtra (Rommel Pandit, Ronak Pandit, Ashok Pandit) 1606.

Junior: 1. Hambir Singh (Army) 540, 2. Surjeet Singh (Army) 530, 3. Pushpinder Singh (Army) 529.

Women: 10m Air pistol: 1. Sonia Rai (CISF) 383 (9.8, 9.9, 10.9, 9.2, 9.8, 9.9, 10.2, 9.4, 10.4, 9.9) 482.4, 2. Anisa Sayyed (Rlys) 380 (9.4, 10.3, 10.5, 10.7, 10.9, 9.4, 10.2, 8.3, 10.1, 9.0), 3. Harveen Srao (Pun) 379 (9.4, 9.1, 10.1, 9.9, 10.2, 9.8, 9.3, 9.8, 8.9, 10.2) 475.7.

Team: 1. Punjab (Lakhbir Kaur, Rajwinder, Harveen) 1116, 2. CRPF (Shilpi Singh, Sarvesh Tomar, Rachna Devi) 1116, 3. Indian Airlines (Annu Raj Singh, Shweta Choudhary, Seema Tomar) 1108.

Junior: 1. Himadri Thapliyal (Utr) 381, 2. Harveen (Pun) 379, 3. Shweta Choudhary (IA) 378.

Team: 1. Punjab (Shefali Tomar, Ruby Tomer, Harveen) 1110, 2. Delhi (Nausheen Fathima, Anjali Marwaha, Tannvi) 1087, 3. Maharashtra (Vidya Jadhav, Aparna Salunkhe, Mayuri Mukherjee) 1083.

50m sports rifle prone: 1. Raj Kumari (Army) 590, 2. Tejaswini Sawant (Mah) 590, 3. Meena Kumari (Army) 590.

Team: 1. Army (D. V. S. Lakshmi Priya, Meena Kumari, Raj Kumari) 1769, 2. Maharashtra (Anjali Bhagwat, Leena Lad, Tejaswini) 1746, 3. Railways (Anuja Jung, Deepali Deshpande, Rakhee Samant) 1746.

Junior: 1. Sharda Thapa (Inf) 587, 2. N. Saini Devi (Man) 587, 3. Hema K. C. (NCC) 582.Team: 1. NCC (Yasmin Anwar, S. Mythili, Hema) 1726, 2. Manipur (L. Nirmala Devi, I. Anita Devi, Saini Devi) 1644, 3. Punjab (Jotveer Kaur Dandiwal, Reshu Tomar, Preeti Tomar) 1609.

Champion of champions: Air pistol: 1. Samaresh Jung (CISF) 100 (9.4, 10.1, 9.6), 2. Deepak Sharma (Har) 100.4 (10.4, 7.3, 9.4), 3. Omkar Singh (Navy) 98.4.

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