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Shooting
By A Joseph Antony
Maharashtra's Deepali Deshpande, who won the 50m rifle prone for women at 47th National shooting championship at SAAP range in Hyderabad on Saturday. — Photo: Mohammed Yousuf
The Busan Asiad silver medal winning squad member sank to a quartet of nines in her last four shots, but relegated CISF's Leena Shirodkar to second spot by a solitary point lead. Deepali missed her personal best of 590 by a point, but had been looking for a score in the neighbourhood of 593. She did not however doubt she would win, fresh from a camp at the same range, preceding these championships. An architect from the Raheja School in her native Mumbai, she was all praise for the training received from Tibor Gonczol, the Australia-based Hungarian-born coach, particularly in the psychological aspects of shooting. "It was meticulously planned and well arranged,'' she said of the three-week camp. The mother of a two-year old daughter, she finds this range the best in the country. Although in the field for 15 years, she started training hard in the last two. "This event was not taken seriously by the fraternity since it was/is a non-Olympic event, a lot of practice was needed and ammunition was hard to come by. The Sports Authority of India is providing quality ammunition now and one can look forward to good results in this event. A resident of Mulund, she's indebted to the Maharashtra Rifle Association (MRA), which grooms shooters right from scratch. "They are doing their utmost,'' she says in acknowledgement of their support. For a while, she contemplated giving up the sport and reverting to a career in architecture. When she got among the medals, that decision became hard to take. With the hunt for an Olympic quota now on, Deepali finds it near impossible to quit. Precision weapons like these need much care, she says, as she gingerly tucks in her Walther into a bag, before she departs for practice in the 10m range. In the women's skeet competition, Aarti Rao of Delhi equalled the national record of 72/75 incidentally held by her and established at the World Cup in her hometown, earlier this year. Among junior men, Navin Jindal of Chattisgarh led the field with a score of 73 out of 75. In the junior section, Kerala's Sindhu U topped the field with 580, followed by the host's Pooja Reddy (571) and Uttar Pradesh's Anu Tomer (565). The Army squad made its presence felt on the distaff side too, clinching the team championship with 1757 points. The results (Rifle): Women's 50 metre prone: 1. Deepali Deshpande 589 (Mah) 2. Leena Shirodkar 588 (CISF) 3. D.V.S. Lakshmi Priya 586 (Army). Juniors: 1. Sindhu U 580 (Ker) 2. Pooja Reddy 571 (AP) 3. Anu Tomer 565 (UP). Team championships: 1. Army 1757 (DVS Lakshmi Priya, Raj Kumari, Meena Kumari) 2. CISF 1751 (Anjali Bhagwat, Kuheli Gangulee, Leena Shirodkar) 3. RSPB 1713 (Pournima Chinmoy Zanane, Anuja Tere, Suma Shirur).
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