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Sanjeev Rajput misses final

NEW DELHI: Sanjeev Rajput missed the final following a shoot-off for the last spot in the 50-metre rifle prone event in the shooting World Cup in Munich on Monday.

Rajput shot a 596 out of 600, but shot the lowest, a 51.0 in the shoot-off when, 10 had tied for one spot. He missed the slot by 1.5 points, and ended up joint 15th with two others from among 80 shooters. He had a seies of 99, 100, 99, 99, 100, 99.

The results:

Men: 25m rapidfire pistol: 1. Christian Reitz (Ger) 785.3 (584); 2. Martin Strnad (Cze) 780.2 (586); 3. Keith Sanderson (US) 780.0 (585); 16. Vijay Kumar 576; 37. Pemba Tamang 565; 38. Gurpreet Singh 565. MQSChandrasekhar Choudhry 568; Ronak Pandit 551.

50m rifle prone: 1. Guy Starik (Isr) 703.3 (598); 2. Matthew Emmons (US) 702.0 (597); 3. Michael Mcphail (US) 701.0 (598); 15. Sanjeev Rajput 596; 19. Gagan Narang 595; 50. Shamsher Bhandari 592. MQS: Joydeep Karmakar 593; Sushil Ghalay 590.

Double trap: 1. Joshua Richmond (US) 188 (145); 2. Richard Faulds (GBR) 187 (2) 143; 3. Rashid Al-Athba (Qat) 187 (1) 144; 14. Vikram Bhatnagar 140; 36. Ronjan Sodhi 134; 44. Himanshu 128. MQS: Vikram Chopra 141; Mohammed Asab 133.

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