Date:18/05/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/05/18/stories/2008051860431900.htm

Sport - Shooting

Gagan finishes eighth

NEW DELHI: Gagan Narang finished eighth in a strong field of 107 in the men’s air rifle event at the shooting World Cup in Munich on Saturday.

Gagan shot a 596 in the preliminary phase with a series of 99, 99, 99, 100, 99 and 100.

While world champion Abhinav Bindra was 20th with a 594 following an impressive sequence of 98, 98, 99, 99, 100, 100, the third member of the Indian contingent P.T. Raghunath did well to take the 16th place with a 595.

The Indian women had a relatively disappointing fare as Anjali Bhagwat finished 23rd with 395. She had scores of 99, 98, 99 and 99. Suma Shirur and Avneet Kaur Sidhu shot 391.

The results:

Men’s air rifle: 1. Alin George Moldoveanu (Rou) 702.0 (599); 2. Zhu Qinan (Chn) 700.6 (597); 3. Thomas Farnik (Aut) 699.8 (597); 8. Gagan Narang 696.2 (596); 16. P.T. Raghunath 595; 20. Abhinav Bindra 594. MQS: Hardeep Singh 589; Sanjeev Rajput 589.

Women’s air rifle: 1. Sonja Pfeilschifter (Ger) 503.4 (399); 2. Lioubov Galkina (Rus) 502.0 (398); 3. Agnieszka Staron (Pol) 500.7 (398); 23. Anjali Bhagwat 395; 60. Suma Shirur 391; 64. Avneet Kaur Sidhu 391. MQS: Priya Agarwal 394; Tejaswini Sawant 387.