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Joydeep corners glory

Kirti Patil

AHMEDABAD: Joydeep Karmakar fired the best ever Indian scores in 50m rifle prone event when the Railways shooter scored an impressive 598 out of 600 before clinching the gold medal with yet another national record, in the National shooting championship.

Joydeep was two points better than junior Akash Kumar of NCC in the qualification rounds, before he came up with 102.7 in the final for a total of 700.7, to better the previous aggregate record held by Satgurudass (698), set in Bangalore in 2002. Joydeep jointly held the previous record of 595 with A.P. Subbiah (Auckland, 1999) and Gagan Narang (Milan, 2006, Kuwait 2007).

“I wanted to make it to the Asian championship in Kuwait to try and get Olympic quota, but my scores were low and I couldn’t make it to the Indian team,” said Joydeep.

“I’ll start preparing for the 2012 Olympics from now itself. This score will give me a big boost to do much better in the World meets,” he said.

Akash Kumar was also equally good, shooting just one under-10 score of 9.7, in his second shot. His total of 698.6, after an impressive final round worth 102.6, earned him the silver medal. Army’s Devesh Panwar bagged the bronze with a total of 697.

Akash betters record

Akash (596), as expected, won the junior gold, which he lapped up with a national record, previously held by Ghaley (593), set in 2000 in Phillaur.

Later in the day, Olympic quota holder Samresh Jung wasted a four-point lead to finish second behind Bapu Vanjare of Army in the men’s 10m air pistol event.

The results: Men: 10m Air pistol: 1. Bapu Vanjare (Army) (578, 99.9) 677.9, 2. Samresh Jung (CISF) (582, 95.4) 677.4, 3. Gurpal Singh (Army) (573, 100.4) 673.4.

Team: 1. Army (Neeraj Kumar, Raj Kumar, Bapu Vanjare) 1724, 2. Indian Airlines (Vivek Singh, Amanpreet Singh, Zakir Khan) 1703, 3. Indo-Tibetan Border Police (Umesh Chandra, Viraj Singh,Shambhu Sanker Singh) 1699.

Juniors: 1. Amanpreet Singh (IA) 572, 2. Amit Kumar (MP) 571, 3. Anurag Shukla (Mah) 567.

Team: 1. Uttar Pradesh (Sanwaria Malik, Digvijay Singh Malik, Farooq Ali) 1694, 2. Army (Amit Singh, Himmat Singh, Kapil Tomar) 1676, 3. Maharashtra (R. P. Singh, Siddheshwar Ramkisan Gore, Ruchit Dilip Kapadia) 1669.

50m rifle prone: 1. Joydeep Karmakar (Rlys) (598 NR; OR 595, 102.7) 700.7 (NR; OR 698), 2. Akash Kumar (NCC) (596, 102.6) 698.6, 3. Devesh Panwar (Army) (595, 102) 697.

Team: 1. Army (Imran Hasan Khan, Sushil Ghaley, Surendra Singh, Rathod) 1771, 2. Border Security Force (Shamsher Singh, Ram Kumar, Hanumana Ram) 1758, 3. Navy (Manoj Kumar, Sanjeev Rajput, Rahul Poonia) 1758.

Juniors: 1. Akash Kumar (NCC) 596 (NR; OR 593), 2. Atul Wade (NCC) 589, 3. Tenzin Dhonyoe (Army) 582.

Team: 1. NCC (Atul Wade, Akash Kumar, Veerendra) 1766, 2. Army (K. Shaji, R. Aberao Kikon, Amit Kumar) 1724, 3. Tamil Nadu (R. Shivanth Krishna, V. Suraj Sundev Shanker, S. Siva Siddharth) 1670.

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