Suma Shirur fires 397

August 06, 2011 07:04 pm | Updated 07:04 pm IST - Pune:

World record holder and Olympian Suma Shirur, returning to competitive shooting after a long layoff, fired 397/400 in the women's 10m air rifle event at the Gun For Glory shooting championship here on Saturday.

Pune youngster Priya Agarwal (397) kept pace with the Railways shooter, two-time Olympian Anjali Bhagwat occupied third place with 394 in the ISSF category, featuring internationals.

Suma had two 100s, one 99 and 98, Priya had a 100 and three 99s.

In the 10m air pistol event, Olympic hopeful Heena Sidhu shot 387/400 to leave Olympic quota holder Annu Raj Singh (382) in second place. Neha Tokas (380) was third, while another Olympic quota holder Rahi Sarnobat was placed fourth after a qualification series of 378.

In the National Ranking category, Arun Kumar Malaichamy clinched the men's 10m air pistol title.

The results:

ISSF ranking (leading top eight): Men:10m Air Rifle: 1. Aribam Sharma (Army) 593, 2. P.T. Raghunath (Navy) 591, 3. Ramesh Mali (Mah) 590, 4. Chain Singh (Army) 589, 5. Sameer Ambekar (Rlys) 587, 6. Bibaswan Ganguly (DGQA) 586, 7. Jaskaranjeet Singh (Pun) 584, 8. Kanhaiya Babar (Mah) 584.

10m Air Pistol: 1. Omkar Singh (Navy) 578, 2. Vijay Singh (Army) 576, 3. Gurpreet Singh (Army) 575, 4. Deepak Sharma (AI) 575, 5. Vijay Kumar SM (Army) 573, 6. Charanjit Singh (Army) 572, 7. Jitendra Vibhute (Rlys) 572, 8. Naresh Kumar (Navy) 568.

Women: 10m Air Rifle: 1. Suma Shirur (Rlys) 397, 2. Priya Agarwal (Rlys) 397, 3. Anjali Bhagwat (Mah) 394, 4. Neha Sapte (Mah) 393, 5. Lajja Gauswami (Guj) 392, 6. Shalini Chahar (UP) 391, 7. Supriya Borchate (Mah) 390, 8. Kuheli Gangulee (CISF) 390.

10m Air Pistol: 1. Heena Sidhu (Pun) 387, 2. Annu Raj Singh (AI) 382, 3. Neha Tokas (Del) 380, 4. Rahi Sarnobat (Mah) 378, 5. Sarvesh Tomar (CRPF) 376, 6. Lakhbir Kaur Sidhu (Pun) 374, 7. Anita Devi (Har) 373, 8. Shreya Gawande (Mah) 372.

National ranking (finals): 10m Air Rifle: Men: 1. J. Kumara (TN) 388, 2. Virbhadra Salokhe (Mah) 384, 3. Amlyan Saha (DGQA) 378. Junior: 1. Brahma Gauswami (Guj) 384, 2. Parul Kumar (UP) 383, 3. Mukesh Kumar (NCC) 379. Youth: 1. Virbhadra Salokhe (Mah) 384, 2. Swapnil Kusale (Mah) 376, 3. B. Mithilesh (TN) 374.

Women: 1. Sania Khan (MP) 386, 2. Neha Chaphekar (Mah) 386, 3. Anuradha Khude (Mah) 381. Junior: 1. Jeevitha Sachidananda (Kar) 381, 2. Dipika Shirsat (Mah) 377, 3. Riya Shah (Guj) 377. Youth: 1. Anuradha Khude (Mah) 381, 2. Chahat Deep Kaur (Chd) 376, 3. Jashan Reet (Pun) 370.

10m Air Pistol: Men: 1. Arun Kumar Malaichamy (TN) 372, 2. G Shyamkanhai Sharma (Man) 368, 3. Amol (Rlys) 367. Services: 1. Naval Kishore Tiwari (CRPF) 372, 2. L.B. Gaikwad (CRPF) 357, 3. Ravinder Kumar Singhal (Mah) 341. Junior: 1. Haresh Kamble (Mah) 365, 2. Chetan Jaiswal (Mah) 361, 3. Saurabh Tomar (UP) 353. Youth: 1. Akash Deep (UP) 363, 2. Gurpratap Randhawa (Pun) 363, 3. Sambhaji Patil (Mah) 361.

Women: 1. S. Savithana Devi (TN) 361, 2. Jayashree More (Mah) 348, 3. Sangeeta Ghatak (Ben) 347.

Junior: 1. Hmani Singh Dangi (UP) 352, 2. Neetu Sharma (Raj) 351, 3. Kirandeep Kaur (Pun) 349. Youth: 1. Anna Kler (Pun) 356, 2. Lavi Malik (UP) 354, 3. Dakshata (Mah) 342.

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