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Victorious: Mixed team champions Anantjeet and Maheshwari with their medals.
| Photo Credit: Kamesh Srinivasan
Maheshwari Chauhan and Anantjeet Singh won the mixed skeet gold for Rajasthan, beating Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Areeba Khan 44-43 in the 67th National shooting championship at the Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad, on Wednesday.
Maheshwari and Anantjeet duo, which had missed the Olympic bronze in Paris by one point, had topped qualification with 143. Three teams were tied on 141, and Uttar Pradesh won the shoot-off to earn the right to fight for the gold.
In the mixed air rifle event at the Madhya Pradesh Academy in Bhopal, the Tamil Nadu pair of R. Narmada and Sri Karthik Sabari Raj bagged the gold with a 16-6 win over qualification topper Railways team of Arjun Babuta and Sonam Maskar.
Manini Kaushik won the non-Olympic 50-metre rifle prone women’s gold.
The results:
Mixed skeet: 1. Rajasthan (Maheshwari Chauhan, Anantjeet Singh Naruka) 44 (143); 2. Uttar Pradesh (Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Areeba Khan) 43 (141)8; 3. Punjab (Ganemat Sekhon, Abhay Singh Sekhon) 44 (141)6; 4. Haryana (Raiza Dhillon, Ishaan Singh Libra) 41 (141)7.
Juniors: 1. Madhya Pradesh (Jyotiraditya Sisodiya, Mansi Raghuwanshi) 40(4) (139); 2. Haryana (Ishaan Singh Libra, Sanjana Sood) 40(2) 139; 3. Telangana (Munek Battula, Zahra Deesawala) 42 (131); 4. Rajasthan (Yashasvi Rathore, Yaduraj Singh) 36 (131).
Mixed air rifle: 1. Tamil Nadu (R. Narmada, Sri Karthik Sabari Raj) 16 (632.0); 2. Railways (Arjun Babuta, Sonam Maskar) 6 (632.4); 3. Madhya Pradesh (Aishwary Tomar, Gautami Bhanot) 17 (630.8); 4. West Bengal (Mehuli Ghosh, Abhinav Shaw) 13 (630.5).
Juniors: 1. Rajasthan (Yash Vardhan, Devanshi Katara) 16 (628.3); 2. Karnataka (Tilottama Sen, Abhishek Sekhar) 8 (628.1); 3. Maharashtra (Parth Mane, Mayuri Pawar) 16 (627.6); 4. Army (Vishal Singh, Advika Shriwas) 4 (627.4).
Youth: 1. West Bengal (Abhinav Shaw, Sandrata Roy) 16 (628.6); 2. Andhra Pradesh (Vejendla Praneeth, Tanyu Sirangi) 14 (630.1); 3. Madhya Pradesh (Gautami Bhanot, Satyarth Patel) 17 (627.9); 4. Haryana (Ameerah Arshad, Jatin Lamba) 11 (625.7).
50m rifle prone: Women: 1. Manini Kaushik 627.5; 2. Prachi Gaikwad 625.6; 3. Bhakti Bhaskar 625.3.
Juniors: 1. Prachi Gaikwad 625.6; 2. Nupur Kumrawat 623.1; 3. Saniya Safale 623.1.
Published – December 25, 2024 07:17 pm IST
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Mixed skeet gold for Maheshwari and Anantjeet
