National champion Tilottama Sen maintained her excellent performance in the 50m rifle 3 positions, winning the national selection trials T1 for Group A at the Karni Singh Shooting Range. Niraj Kumar of the Navy claimed victory in the men’s event on Tuesday.
In the 25m rapid fire pistol T1, Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu secured the top spot. The 50m 3P finals, played in the new ISSF format, saw Tilottama, who recently won 11 medals in the 68th National Shooting Championship, finish ahead of Ashi Chouskey by a narrow margin of 0.6. Tilottama from Karnataka scored 360.1, while Ashi ended with a score of 359.5. Manini Kaushik of Rajasthan finished third with a score of 347.5.
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Tilottama and Ashi had earlier qualified for the finals in the top two spots with scores of 594 and 592, respectively.
Surabhi Bharadwaj Rapole of Railways (589, 311.7 in finals), Vidarsa Kinod of Kerala (588, 336.3 in finals), Ayushi Podder of Railways (588, 322.6 in finals), Anjum Moudgil of Punjab (587, 204.7 in finals), and Mansi Kathait of Railways (587, 299.2 in finals) completed the finals lineup.
Navy’s Niraj Kumar displayed consistent performance throughout the finals, securing the top spot with a score of 360.5, which was 3.6 points more than Adriyan Karmakar of West Bengal, who finished with a score of 356.9.
National champion Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar finished third with a score of 346.7. Representing Madhya Pradesh, Aishwary had qualified for the finals with a score of 595, while Ganga Singh of the Army qualified second with a score of 593.
Swapnil Kusale of Railways (592), Rudrankksh B. Patil of Maharashtra (592), Chain Singh of the Army (590), and Kiran Ankush Jadhav of the Navy (588) completed the finals lineup.
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The 25m rapid fire pistol finals, also played in the new ISSF format, had eight shooters qualifying instead of six. Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu of Punjab secured the top spot with a score of 29, two more than Vijayveer Sidhu, who finished with 27. Mandeep Singh of Haryana took third place with a score of 20 after surviving a shoot-off against National Champion Suraj Sharma, who finished with a score of 18.
Udayveer Sidhu (14), Neeraj Kumar (11), Omkar Singh (7), and Ankur Goel were the other finalists.
(With Inputs From Agencies)
