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As all the three Indian women, Anjali Vedpathak Bhagwat, Suma Shirur and Deepali Deshpande, had touched up to 582 out of 600 earlier, there was some hope that they would challenge the leading shooters of the world strongly. In fact, Anjali had twice shot that score in international competitions to assert her class. However, the tough conditions meant an overall string of low scores, as the 19-year-old Jamie Beyerle of the U.S. walked away with the gold and the Olympic quota place, despite shooting a mere 579 in the preliminary phase. To her credit, the American shot a 100.7 in the final, to beat Lucie Valova of the Czech Republic by a 1.1-point margin. The Czech had shot a 581 in the preliminary phase. Two others, Barbara Lechner of Germany and Olga Dovgun of Kazakhstan shot a 582 each, but could muster only 93.9 and 93.7 in the final, that saw them take the third and fourth positions. Anjali and Deepali were joint 38th with two others with a total of 568. Anjali had rounds of 96, 95, 93, 95, 94 and 95 while Deepali had 98, 93, 94, 93, 93 and 97. Suma Shirur was joint 45th with a 566, as she had a sequence of 95, 95, 96, 94, 94 and 92. In their defence, it can be stated that the three Indian women who had won the air rifle team silver in the last Asian Games and have been performing strongly in that event in the World Cups recently, have not been able to focus fully on the 3-position event. While Anjali did not compete in the 3-position event in the last World Cup in Fort Benning, where she won the air rifle gold, both Deepali and Suma had shot a 572. Meanwhile, there was a good effort by Samaresh Jung in the free pistol event on Saturday, but the CISF employee could not make it to the final. In fact, Samaresh did not have to make the final to get the Olympic quota place, which went to the ninth placed Isidro Lorenzo of Spain at 560. However, Samaresh could not reproduce his qualification score of 560 the previous day, in the preliminary series. The young man shot a 557 to finish joint 14th. The Olympic quota had gone for a score as low as 556, to Joao Costa of Portugal in the World Championship in Lahti, and Samaresh has a personal best of 561. He was unlucky not to compete in the World Cup in Fort Benning last month as his equipment had been misplaced by the airlines. Ronak Pandit shot a 543 to finish joint 47th in a field of 68 shooters. It was a huge improvement from his 532 in the elimination round the previous day. Following his poor performance in air pistol, it has been a chastening experience for the young Ronak. Martin Tenk of the Czech Republic had built up a six-point lead over the second best in the run-up to the final, and thus cruised to the gold with a total of 668.3. Vladimir Gontcharov of Russia and Dan Xu of China took the silver and bronze with scores of 666.1 and 662.4 respectively. The Indian shooters will move on, with the rest of the gang, to the next World Cup in Munich next week, hoping to get a medal or more importantly an Olympic quota place.
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