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Birendeep sets new record

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National Games / Shagun traps gold

RANCHI: Birendeep Sodhi produced the day's lone record in the men's trap event of the 34th National Games shooting competition here on Wednesday.

En route to the gold medal, Sodhi improved two records with scores of 117 and 138 points respectively. The previous record was held by Zorawar Singh (105 and 123) in the Guwahati Games.

Shagun Chowdhary of Rajasthan won the first-ever trap event for women with a score of 80.

Rajput, Tejaswini win

Services' Sanjeev Rajput and Tejaswini Sawant of Maharashtra won the 50m rifle prone in close contests.

Rajput, who was consistent throughout the 10-shot final, had a worst score of 10 but the 10.9 in the final attempt gave him the gold with a total of 690.6.

Bengal's Joydeep Karmakar, who was just 0.2 behind going into the last shot, floundered by finishing with a 10.0. Uttar Pradesh won the team honours.

Tejaswini had no such problem as she shot a perfect 100 in the sixth and final series to retain the gold. “It is a difficult range to shoot because of the wind, but I managed to shoot better than the others,'' she said. Her team Maharashtra also won the team gold.

Biggest win

After Manipur thrashed Tripura 24-0 in a preliminary league match of the women's event at Jamshedpur, it was the turn of Bengal to hammer Tripura 26-0, a record margin. Manipur won its second game beating Assam 2-0 while Tamil Nadu lost to Haryana 0-1.

In the men's event, Delhi and Jharkhand drew 2-2 while it ended 1-1 in the encounter between Goa and Punjab.

S. Doyngel put Punjab ahead with a 34th minute strike. Goa's riposte was quick as it struck before half-time through Augustine Fernandes.

The results:

Men: 50m rifle prone: 1. Sanjeev Rajput (Ser) 690.6 points, 2. Joydeep Karmakar (Ben) 689.1, 3. Akash Ravidas (UP) 688.4; Team: Uttar Pradesh (Ravidas, Chain Singh, Sushil Ghaley) 1757, 2. Services 1746, 3. Bengal 1743.

50m pistol: 1. Amit Kumar Pilaniya (MP) 645.3 points, 2. Om Prakash (Ser) 639.2, 3. Amanpreet Singh (Pun) 638.9; Team: 1. MP (Pilaniya, Vijay Singh, Hari Prakash) 1624 points, 2. Services 1622, 3. UP 1603.

Centre fire pistol: 1. Samaresh Jung (HP) 584 points, 2. Pemba Tamang (Ser) 579, 3. Vivek Singh (Har) 576; Team: 1. Services (Tamang, Omkar Singh, Pushpender Singh) 1723 points, 2. Haryana 1685, 3. Tamil Nadu 1683.

Trap: 1. Birendeep Sodhi (Pun) 117 (q), 138 (f) (NMR, old 105 (q), 123 (f) by Zorawar Singh, Guwahati 2007), 2. Manavjit Sandhu (Pun) 136, 3. Anwar Sultan (UP) 136; Team: 1. Punjab 334 points, 2. UP 332, 3. AP 329.

Women: 50m rifle prone: 1. Tejaswini Sawant (Mah) 590 points, 2. Rajkumari Rathore (MP) 587, 3. Meena Kumari (HP) 587; Team: 1. Maharashtra (Tejaswini, Anjali Bhagwat, Deepali Deshpande) 1748, 2. Services 1744, 3. MP 1735.

Trap: 1. Shagun Chowdhary (Raj) 80 points, 2. Snehlata Rajwant (Har)

78, 3. Seema Tomar (Ser) 78.

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