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Friday, Mar 17, 2006

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Indian shooters set to improve

Melbourne: Spearheaded by Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and in-form Samresh Jung, the 27-member Indian shooting squad looks confident of improving upon their 2002 Manchester showing in this edition of the Commonwealth Games in their competitions, which start here from Friday.

Samresh Jung, Gagan Narang, Abhinav Bindra, Tejaswinin Sawant and Avneet Kaur Sidhu's performance forced the critics and administrators alike to sit up and take notice of India as a formidable team in this sport.

Indian shooters won 24 medals, 14 gold 7 silver and 3 bronze, in the last edition at Manchester 2002.

The reason for the confidence in the Indian camp is due to consistent good performance and high scores in various competitions in the recent past.

The gold medal tally can go up here if they reproduce their form here. Australia poses the biggest challenge to the Indians. The hosts won 30 medals (11 gold, 13 silver and six bronze) in Manchester.

National Coach Sunny Thomas and foreign coaches, Laszlo Szucsak and Csaba Gyorik, are confident of good showing by the shooters. — UNI

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