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Shooting
Samaresh Jung clinches gold
By Kamesh Srinivasan
INDORE, JAN. 15. Samaresh Jung and Shilpi Singh asserted their supremacy by bagging the air pistol gold in the men's and women's sections respectively in the National shooting championship at the Reoti range here on Tuesday.
Having missed a medal in the National Games recently, Samaresh was thrilled to prove his worth with a 675.3, as he followed a 575 with a 100.3. He won the gold 3.8 points ahead of Umesh Chandra of Indo-Tibetan Border Police, after making the final with a two-point lead.
Samaresh had started his series with a 100, but rounds of 91, 98, 94, 96 and 96 cut short his hopes of putting up a record total. In the final, Samresh had a series of 10.2, 9.2, 9.6, 10.5, 9.6, 10.7, 10.3, 10.3, 9.8 and 10.1.
Vivek Singh took the bronze 0.3 points ahead of Gurpal Singh, who was fielded in the competition ahead of seniors in a bold move by the Army.
Jaspal Rana did not compete in the air pistol event, a rare experience for him, as he was not prepared to take his lane in the allotted detail. The efforts to have a teammate from Uttaranchal take the lane proved futile. Jaspal had won the National Games gold with a huge margin.
Shilpi Singh had missed the gold by a big margin to Sonika Mannon in the National Games, but was in her rhythm this day. She followed a 377, a three-point lead over Baljeet Kaur, with a 98.2 in the final. She won by a 3.5 point margin over the Army shooter.
Saroja Kumari jumped up from the fifth slot before the final, with a brilliant 10.8 last shot to take the bronze 0.6 points ahead of Sushma Rana (467.3) and Sonia Rana (465.1).
On Monday, Saroja Kumari had clinched the gold in the sport pistol event with a total of 659.2. The mother of two, who was winning her third gold, in the last five years in this event, was one point ahead of Sonia Rana of CISF at the end of the preliminary phase.
In the final, Sonia got ahead by 0.9 points after the first series of five shots, but had a 5.4 in the second series that put paid to her hopes of a gold.
Sushma Rana who had clinched the National Games gold with a National record 579, could muster only a 552 and finished fifth with a total of 647.1.
In the men's free rifle 3-position event, Bishnu Nag of Navy took the gold with a 2.2 point lead over Ashok Kumar of Army. Fariuddin Siddiqui of Army was threatening to move up from the fourth slot, but a crossfire with his sixth shot, pushed him to the seventh slot.
Abhijeet Konduskar, a third year Mechanical Engineering student from the University of Ohio, took the junior gold with a 1140.
lThe results: Men: 10-metre air pistol: 1. Samaresh Jung (CISF) 675.3 (575); 2. Umesh Chandra (ITBP) 671.5 (573); 3. Vivek Singh (IA) 669.1 (569).
Team: 1. Army (Gurpal Singh 572, Mahavir Singh 566, Ved Prakash 562) 1700; 2. Indian Airlines (Vivek Singh 569, Toshinder Singh 554, Zakir Khan 563) 1686; 3. ITBP (Umesh Chandra 573, Satnam Singh 555, Viraj Singh 557) 1685.
Juniors: 1. Deepak Sharma (Har) 570, 2. Zakir Khan (IA) 563, 3. Amol R. Renke (Mah) 562; Team: 1. Maharashtra (Yogesh D. Sudke 552, Amol R. Renke 562, Ronak Pandit 556) 1670; 2. Indian Airlines (Nikhil Singh 546, Tosinder Singh 554, Zakir Khan 563) 1663; 3. Delhi (Syed Zakir Ali 548, Bhrigu Dutt 555, Harshneet Singh Marwah 541) 1644.
25m sport pistol (juniors): 1. Ronak Pandit (Mah) 571; 2. Zakir Khan (IA) 561; 3. Syed Zakir Ali (Del) 554; Team: 1. Maharashtra (Amol R. Renke 532, Rommel Pandit 538, Ronak Pandit 571) 1641; 2. Army (Sandeep Singh 533, Pawan Kholia 540, Manoj Kumar 551) 1624; 3. Delhi (Syed Zakir Ali 54, Bhrigu Dutt 524, Vineet Kumar Koslia 534) 1612.
50m free rifle 3-position: 1. Bishnu Nag (Navy) 1237.0 (1142); 2. Ashok Kumar (Army) 1234.8 (1143); 3. Dilip Sawant (Army) 1231.1 (1139); Team: 1. BSF (M. Shankar 1133, Raj Kumar 1130, Shamsher Singh 1126) 3389; 2. Navy (Manoj Kumar 1115, Bishnu Nag 1142, Deepak K. Dubey 1131) 3388; 3. Army (T. C. Palangappa 1113, A. P. Subbaiah 1126, Charan Singh 1131) 3370.
Juniors: 1. Abhijeet Konduskar (Mah) 1140; 2. Kuldeep Singh (Army) 1121; 3. Surendra Singh Rathore (Army) 1115; Team: 1. Army (Surendra Singh Rathore 1115, Kuldeep Singh 1121, Imran Hasan 1115) 3351.
Women: 10m air pistol: 1. Shilpi Singh (CISF) 475.2 (377); 2. Baljeet Kaur (Army) 471.7 (374); 3. Saroja Kumari (Army) 467.9 (368).
Team: 1. CISF (Shilpi Singh 377, Sushma Rana 370, Sonia Rana 371); 2. Army (Baljeet Kaur 374, Saroja Kumari 368, Sonika Kashyap 348) 1090; 3. Indian Airlines (Shweta Chaudhary 357, Anu Raj Singh 364, Seema Tomar 363) 1084.
Juniors: 1. Charu Pragya (Mah) 368, 2. Anu Raj Singh (IA) 364, 3. Seema Tomar (IA) 363; Team: 1. Indian Airlines (Shweta Chaudhary 357, Anu Raj Singh 364, Seema Tomar 363) 1084, 2. Maharashtra (Aparna S. Salunkhe 341, Amruta Kulkarni 351, Charu Pragya 368) 1060; 3. Uttar Pradesh (Neha Sharma 363, Mansi Ramendra 344, Charu Malik 352) 1059.
25m sport pistol: 1. Saroja Kumari (Army) 659.2 (563); 2. Sonia Rana (CISF) 654.6 (562); 3. Baljeet Kaur (Army) 653.7 (560); Team: 1. CISF (Sushma Rana 552, Sonia Rana 562, Sonika Mannon 530) 1644; 2. Army (Baljeet Kaur 560, Saroja Kumari 563, Sonika Kashyap 503) 1626; 3. Indian Airlines (Shweta Chaudhary 544, Anu Raj Singh 516, Seema Tomar 537) 1597.
Juniors: 1. Shweta Chaudhary (IA) 544; 2. Seema Tomar (IA) 537; 3. Neha Sharma (UP) 531; Team: 1. Indian Airlines (Shweta Chaudhary 544, Anu Raj Singh 516, Seema Tomar 537) 1597.
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