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Anuja Jung clinches gold

Kirti Patil

AHMEDABAD: Anuja Jung kept her focus intact to beat a wavering Anjali Bhagwat to win the gold medal in the women’s 50m Sports rifle 3-position event in the 51st National shooting championship at the Rifle Club here on Friday.

Having missed most of the international season in 2007 due to poor scores, Anuja came here with just one goal.

“I wanted to beat myself and I am happy to have done that,” said Anuja after winning the rifle 3-position event.

Anuja (575) qualified for the final in the second place, one point behind Anjali, the Olympic quota holder in the event. Anjali, who finished seventh in the Asian championship in Kuwait last month, seemed to have trouble with the movement behind the targets at the semi-indoor ranges here. A dog kept moving around her target, but since the final had started no effort was done to get the animal out of the range.

Anjali’s one-point lead soon diminished when she lost focus and shot a poor 6.8 on her second shot.

Immediately Anuja took the lead and kept up her shots within Anjali’s scores and went on to win the National title. Anuja had a steady final round of 9.7, 8.9, 9.8, 10.8, 9.4, 9.8, 9.7, 10.2, 10.0, 9.3 for a total of 97.6. Although Anjali had three 10s, her second shot cost her the title.

Meena Kumari of Army, lying eighth after the qualification round with a score of 567, leapfrogged up to win the bronze medal after shooting the best final round worth 98.5.

The results: Men: 25m Standard pistol: 1. Vijay Kumar (Army) 572, 2. Samresh Jung (CISF) 565, 3. Amanpreet Singh (IA) 563. Team: 1. Army (C. K. Chaudhary, Vijay Kumar, Pemba Tamang) 1684, 2. Navy (Omkar Singh, Satendra Kumar, Atul Yadav) 1658, 3. Maharashtra (Shenzad I. Mirza, Ashok Pandit, Ronak Pandit) 1651.

Junior: 1. Narender Singh (Army) 563 (47), 2. Amanpreet Singh 563 (42), 3. Hambir Singh (Army) 560.

Women: 50m Sports rifle 3-position: 1. Anuja Jung (Rlys) (575, 97.6) 672.6, 2. Anjali Bhagwat (Mah) (576, 94.5) 670.5, 3. Meena Kumari (Army) (567, 98.5) 665.5.

Team: 1. Maharashtra (Anjali, Tejaswini Sawant, Leena Lad) 1701, 2. Railways (Anuja, Deepali Deshpande, Pournima Zanane) 1692, 3. NCC (Lajja Gauswami, Hema K. C., Rekha C.) 1690.

Junior: 1. Anu Tomer (UP) 574 NR (old 573), 2. Hema (NCC) 568, 3. Ruchira Lawand (Mah) 566. Team: 1. NCC (Lajja, Hema, Rekha) 1690, 2. Punjab (Tanya Dutta, Reshu Tomer, Preeti Tomer) 1608.

10m Air pistol: 1. Rachna Govil (Har) (377, 100.1) 477.1, 2. Shweta Chaudhary (ONGC) (381, 95.3) 476.3, 3. Heena Sidhu (Pun) (379, 96.8) 475.8.

Team: 1. Punjab (Harveen Srao, Heena, Lakhbir Kaur) 1134, 2. CRPF (Shilpi Singh, Pushpanjali, Rachana Devi) 1110, 3. Maharashtra (Rahi Sarnobat, Shiela Kanungo, Upasana Parasrampuria) 1103.

Junior: 1. Heena 379, 2. Ruby Tomar (Pun) 372, 3. Vidya Jadhav (Mah) 372. Team: 1. Maharashtra (Rahi, Vidya, Upasana) 1111, 2. Punjab (Ruby, Mandeep Sandhu, Heena) 1110, 3. Uttar Pradesh (Deepika Patel, Kumari Neetu, Sapna Chaudhary) 1089.

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