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Shooting: Memorable outing for Manavjit Singh

By D.Ravi Shankar

Manavjit Singh Sandhu of Punjab, who won the skeet event with a meet record score in the National Games in Hyderabad on Saturday. — Photo: K. Gopinathan

HYDERABAD Dec. 21. Punjab's Manavjit Singh who took the gold in the men's trap event made it a memorable National Games outing recording a fine double winning the Skeet event and topping the National Games record in the process. Manavjit thrilled the small crowd watching the event with some brilliant shooting bagging 24 `kills' of a possible 25 in the final round.

The youngster making his debut in the National Games had a score of 120 in the qualifying round and led Naveen Jindal of Rajasthan by three points. Naveen Jindal too eclipsed the previous National Games record (137) set by H.S Bedi in Bangalore in 1997.

The skeet event is thrilling sight to watch. The shooters unlike in the Trap event do not have their double barrels in the ready- to- fire position. They have to take their aim only after the targets are released. The `birds' a bituminous and plastic disc shaped object is released from a machine by a voice activated computer and are released from a high house and a low house.

Shooters have to hit the birds to collect points and the entire sequence makes for an enthralling display. Manavjit drew repeated applause for his telling accuracy.

It was another fine day for Samaresh Jung of Andhra Pradesh. Participating in the 50 metre Free Pistol event Samaresh had a five point lead going into the final round and was almost assured of a gold after the first round of five shots. There was a stiff contest for the second and third placed and teenage shooter Amit Kumar of Rajasthan who made a big impact shooting 550 in the qualifying rounds just about upstaged Kamal Singh of the same State. Kamal was pipped at the post by the promising youngster. Incidentally this event also had the father and son duo of Amit Kumar and Ved Prakash in the final line-up.

The results: Skeet (Individual) 1. Manavjit Singh Sandhu (Pun) 144.0, 2. Naveen Jindal (Chattisgarh) 140.0, 3. Rahoul Rai (Del) 134.0

Team: Chattisgarh ( Naveen Jindal 117, Amardeep Singh Rai 113, Rajpal Singh 110) 340, 2. Punjab 322, 3. Karnataka 316.

50 metre free pistol: (Individual): Samaresh Jung (AP) 650.3, 2. Amit Kumar (Raj) 644.3, 3. Kamal Singh (Raj) 643.2

Team: Services Sports Control Board (Ved Prakash 545, Mahavir Singh 541, T.K Sikdar 535) 1621, 2. Rajasthan 1618, 3. Uttaranchal 1607.

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