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Shooting
By A. Joseph Antony
Gagan Narang, who won the air rifle event at 47th National shooting championship in Hyderabad on Friday. — Photo: Mohammed Yousuf
Jung had been four points behind Vivek Singh in the qualifiers, but the former led briefly in the finals, before the latter came to the fore again. Samresh equalised after the seventh shot, inched ahead after the eighth and zoomed ahead to the gold thereafter. Clearly the CISF Inspector's performance in the final overshadowed Vivek's. Although allotted 75 seconds per shot, Samresh was quick to squeeze the heavy trigger of his Morini pistol, time and again. "When everything appears right, why wait for perfection,'' he asked. Assessing his own display, Jung, a native of Haripur, Sirmor district of Himachal Pradesh, said he had two bad shots, particularly the concluding one. "I was excited on the verge of victory,'' he admitted. Without being too confident of winning, he said victory was always a possibility, although anything could go wrong in a sport such as this. Buoyed by the three-point lead in the qualifiers, Gagan Narang sneaked home with a .8 margin over Salim in the men's 10 metre air rifle final. Sandeep Tarte, lying eighth until Thursday, sprang to fourth position with the best show in the final (103.2). Narang later said he had never shot so many nines in a final. That may have come about because of his peering into nearest rival Salim's monitor, when Narang should have been focussing on his foresight. Although his qualifying tally of 595 was his personal best and the sighters mostly in excess of 10, his racing pulse may have made him jumpy, making his rifle unsteady. "I need to go back home and analyse,'' he said. "Almost all of Gagan's shots veered to the left,'' observed national coach and Dronacharya Awardee, Prof. Sunny Thomas. The results: Pistol: Men's 50 m: 1. Samresh Jung 646.7 (CISF); 2. Vivek S. 643.6 (IA); 3. Biji V. 636.1 (BSF). Team championships: 1. Army (Mohd. Kalamuddin, Mahavir Singh, Ved Prakash) 1617; 2. BSF (T.S. Kanak Raj, Biji V., Hari Prakash) 1608; 3. Indian Airlines (Toshinder Singh, Vivek Singh, Zakir Khan) 1596. Juniors: 1. K.M. Irani 540/600 (Mah); 2. Ronak Pandit 539 (Mah); 3. Bhrigu Dutt 533 (Del). Rifle: Men's 10 m air rifle: 1. Gagan Narang 694.8 (IA); 2. Salim H. 694 (BSF); 3. Abhijit Konduskar (Mah) 691.8. Team championships: 1. BSF (Salim H., Akhilesh Rai, Raj Kumar) 1760; 2. Army (Imran Hasan Khan, Ashok Kumar Shahi, Sudhir Pal) 1759; 3. Navy (Sanjeev Rajput, Manoj Kumar, Bishnu Nag) 1752. Juniors: 1. Gagan Narang 595 (IA); 2. Anil Prusty 591 (Army); 3. Imran Hasan Khan 589 (Army). Men's trap: 1. Mansher Singh 145/150 (AP); 2. Anwer Sultan 145 (UP); 3. Zorawar Singh 143 (IA). Team championships: 1. Indian Airlines (Zorawar Singh, S.M. Faizal, Birendeep Sodhi) 333/375; 2. UP (Anwer Sultan, Nayyab Khan, Bhaskar Dutt Sharma) 321; 3. AP (Mansher Singh, Gautam Gianchandani, Darius Chenai) 312. Juniors: 1. Birendeep Sodhi 107/125 (IA); 2. R. Venkatram 98 (TN); 3. Masad Ahmed Rizvi 96 (Infantry Kids).
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