Manu Bhaker wins 10m Pistol at National Selection Trials T3
Manu, who had just managed to qualify for the final as the eighth and last shooter, produced a strong performance in the medal round.
Manu, who had just managed to qualify for the final as the eighth and last shooter, produced a strong performance in the medal round.
Almost all of India’s top guns will be competing in 10 events, which include all eight Olympic events plus the rifle prone competitions for men and women.
Parampal held his nerve in a tense shoot-off to edge past Olympian Anantjeet Singh Naruka in the men’s final. Both shooters finished level on 34 hits out of 36 in the new ISSF skeet finals format.
The junior national champion in 10m Air Rifle produced a composed comeback in the final to finish on top despite entering the medal round as the eighth and last qualifier.
Double Olympian Anjum, one of India’s finest woman rifle shooters ever, missed out on the first half of the international season comprising three World Cup stages, but is back in reckoning in women’s 50m rifle 3 positions (3P), having displaced fellow Paris Olympian Shriyanka Sadangi in the top three.
Olympian and reigning mixed team pistol world champion Esha Singh, was among the three winners on day three of the National Selection Trials 3&4 for Group A Rifle and Pistol shooters, currently underway here at the Trishul Shooting range in Dehradun.
Anish delivered a solid and consistent performance, shooting series of 99, 97and 97, to finish with a total of 293 at the end of round one of qualifications.
Tokyo Olympian shooter Divyansh Singh Panwar, who recently lost his place in the Indian team for the upcoming Baku World Cup, found a semblance of his form back even as Sift Kaur Samra and Vijayveer Sidhu extended theirs, on day two of the National Rifle and Pistol selection trials at the M.P. State Shooting Academy Range in Bhopal.
