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Manavjit wins silver, books Olympic berth

New Delhi: Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Manavjit Singh Sandhu earned himself an Olympic quota place when the ace marksman shot 144 to win the silver in the men's trap event on the last day of the World Cup at Kerrville, the U.S.A.

Manavjit shot a series of 24, 24, 23 and followed it with last two perfect rounds of 25 and 25 in the qualifications to total 121 and he shot 23 in the final for an aggregate of 144 that earned him the silver medal and a place in the Beijing Olympics.

Manavjit won the Olympic quota place for India as the gold medallist in this event had already won the quota place for Russia at the last year's World Cup in Americana, Brazil. The other two Indians in the event, however, were not so impressive.

Anwer Sultan was 46th with a score of 109 (21, 22, 20, 22, 24) and Bireendeep Sodhi finished 53rd with 107 (22,19,19,23,24). The gold was won by Athens Olympics gold medallist Alexey Alipov of Russia with a score of 146 (122+24).

The Bronze medal was decided in a shoot-off between Dominic Grazioli of the United States of America and Michael Diamond from Australia. Both shot 119 in the qualification round and then had identical final score of 23 forcing a shoot-off, which eventually was decided in favour of Grazioli, seven to six.

The ISSF World Cup Shotgun Series 2006 will continue in Cairo, Egypt, from May 16 to 25, according to information received here on Friday. — UNI

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