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Srao makes World Cup final

NEW DELHI: Harveen Srao made the final of women's air pistol in the shooting World Cup at Fort Benning, U.S., on Tuesday.

Harveen made the final with a 382 out of 400, but could not improve on her position owing to a 96.3 in the ten-shot final in which she had only three 10s.

It was a courageous performance by Harveen as she recovered from a disastrous first card of 91 to post three successive rounds of 97 that saw her break into her maiden World Cup final, with three others, with identical scores of 382. Two others with 382 were left out of the top eight on the count-back.

The results:

Men: Air pistol: 1. Vladimir Isakov (Rus) 685.7 (586); 2.Wojciech Knapik (Pol) 680.7 (580); 3. Vladimir Gontcharov (Rus) 680.2 (579); 11. Amanpreet Singh Jhaam 578; 20. Samaresh Jung 576; 47. Vivek Singh 566.

Air rifle: 1. Zhu Qinan (Chn) 702.5 (598); 2. Matthew Emmons (US) 696.6 (596); 3. Liu Tianyou (Chn) 698.8 (597); 9. P. T. Raghunath 595; 27. Gagan Narang 592; 49. Sanjeev Rajput 587.

Women: Air pistol: 1. Lenka Maruskova (Cze) 483.1 (384); 2. Ren Jie (Chn) 483.0 (385); 3. Viktoria Chaika (Blr) 482.7 (382); 8. Harveen Srao 478.3 (382); 13. Shweta Chaudhary 381; 39. Sonia Rai 373.

Air rifle: 1. Zhang Yi (Chn) 503.3 (399); 2. Sonja Pfeilschifter (Ger) 502.7 (399); 3. Jamie Beyerle (US) 502.6 (398); 13. Anjali Bhagwat 395; 19. Tejaswini Sawant 394; 54. Suma Shirur 389.

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