Kerala’s Elizabeth Koshy won the women’s 50m rifle 3 position final at the 58th National shooting championship at the Shiv Chatrapati Sports Complex here on Sunday.
Elizabeth tallied 449 to get the better of Haryana’s Anjum Moudgil (445) Gujarat’s Lajja Gauswami (433).
Haryana’s Sanjeev Rajput, Punbjab’s Abhinav Bindra, Army’s Satyendra Singh, Chain Singh, Imran Khan, Atibam Sharma and Air Force’s Shubham Malik and Ravi Kumar qualified for the men’s 10m air rifle event.
Army’s Vijay Kumar, Gurpreet Singh,Vijesh Kumar and Rajesh Kumar, Navy’s Omkar Singh, Rajasthan’s Mahaveer Singh, CIFS’s Samaresh Jung and BSF’s Wazeer Singh Rathee made the cut for the men’s 25m standard pistol event.
Other results: Women: 50m rifle 3 position (Team): 1. Maharashtra 1714 (Tejaswini Sawant, 577, Anjali Bhagwat, 574, Vedangi Tulzapurkar, 563), 2. Railways 693 (Shirur Siddharth 565, Tejaswini Muley, 565, Anuja Jung, 563, 563), 3. BSF 1680 (Gagandeep Kaur, 563, Amandeep Kaur, 563, Sonia Dadwal, 554)
50m rifle 3 position juniors: Individual: 1. Anjum Moudgil (Haryara-582), 2. Elizabeth Koshy (Kerala-578), Sandhya W (TN-566). Team:
1. Maharashtra 1664 (Priyal Keni, 562, Yashika Shinde, 552, Shyanmai, 550) 2. Tamil Nadu 1663 (Sandhya W. 566, Gaayathri N. 563, G. Varshaa, 534), 3. Punjab, 1618 (Chahat Deep Kaur, 563, Gurmeet Kaur, 536, Shreya, 519).