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Shweta Choudhry right on target

By Kirti Patil

INDORE, OCT. 8. Indian Airlines' Shweta Choudhry shot her personal best score in the classification rounds and then blasted 101.4 in the final to win the women's 25m sports pistol title in the 48th National shooting championships at the Reoti Ranges near here on Friday.

Having scored 577 in the classification round, Shweta had a handy six-point lead over the defending champion and National record holder Sushma Rana. In the final, Shweta produced eight plus-10 scores in an impressive series of 10.7, 10.6, 10.6, 10.5, 8.9, 10.4, 10.2, 10.2, 10.1 and 9.2, while Sushma messed up with just three 10s and her lowest being an 6.4. The total of 678.4 helped Shweta to her maiden sports pistol title after having been the 10m air pistol champion in the Nationals at Pillaur (2000) and Bangalore (2002).

Thanks to Shweta's performance and the fifth placed Anu Raj Singh, Indian Airlines bagged the women's team title with a total of 1667. Uttar Pradesh came a distant second while Infantry Kids settled for the team bronze.

Gold for Samresh

In a low-scoring 50m sports pistol men's event, Samresh Jung kept his focus and though he had two poor scores in the 10-shot final, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) shooter carried himself through to win the gold medal.

The team championship though went to Navy as it had a cumulative score of 1619 with Maharashtra at the second place and Indian Airlines third.

The results:

Men: finals: 50m Free pistol: 1. Samresh Jung (CISF) (549, 10.7, 10.3, 9.2, 7.9, 9.2, 10.6, 8.8, 9.8, 9.9, 10.3) 645.7, 2. Umesh Chandra (ITBP) (546, 8.2, 10.4, 7.8, 9.4, 9.4, 9.9, 10.1, 9.7, 10.2, 9.7) 640.8, 3. Viraj Singh (ITBP) (541, 10.2, 9.4, 9.5, 10.3, 10.0, 9.7, 9.8, 7.8, 10.1, 10.0) 637.8.

Team: 1. Navy (Anil Kumar, Sikdar, Satendra Kumar) 1619, 2. Maharashtra (Ashok Pandit, Ronak Pandit, Kaikhusru M. Irani) 1606, 3. Indian Airlines (Vivek Singh, Toshinder Singh, Deepak Sharma) 1598.

Junior men: 1. Zakir Khan (IA) 543, 2. Bhrigu Dutt (Del) 541, 3. Ronak Pandit (Mah) 540.

Civilian: 1. Prakash P. N. (Kar) 536, 2. Rajiv Sharma (Del) 532, 3. Kamal Sain (UP) 530.

Team: 1. Chhattisgarh (J. P. Nautiyal, Vipin Rana, Bhupendra Singh) 1521, 2. Uttar Pradesh (Akshay Agarwal, Anubhav Dhillon, Kamal Sain) 1493, 3. Maharashtra (Yogesh Sudke, Abdul Majid A. Gani Shaikh, Rommel Pandit) 1482.

Women: 25m Sports pistol: 1. Shweta Choudhry (IA) (577, 10.7, 10.6, 10.6, 10.5, 8.9, 10.4, 10.2, 10.2, 10.1, 9.2) 678.4, 2. Sushma Rana (CISF) (571, 10.4, 10.3, 9.7, 9.3, 6.4, 10.7, 9.5, 9.2, 9.1, 8.4) 664, 3. Saroja Kumari (Army) (564, 10.2, 10.0, 9.5, 9.0, 8.9, 10.3, 9.6, 9.5, 9.1, 8.9) 659.

Team: 1. Indian Airlines (Sonal Ramendra, Anu Raj Singh, Shweta Choudhry) 1667, 2. Uttar Pradesh (Abha Dhillon, Anubha Dhillon, Kunti Malik) 1621, 3. Infantry Kids (Pragya Rathore, Sarves Tomar, Bharati Singh) 1593.Junior women: 1. Shweta Choudhry (IA) 577, 2. Anu Raj Singh (IA) 551, 3. Ankita Chaudhry (Del) 541.

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