Samresh, Anisha, Amit shoot gold

ANISHA SAYED of Railways and Samresh Jung of CISF on Friday won the first position in their respective events in the National Shooting Championship being held at Reoti Range.

ANISHA SAYED of Railways and Samresh Jung of CISF on Friday won the first position in their respective events in the National Shooting Championship being held at Reoti Range.

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Anisha Sayed won the first position in 25m sports pistol event securing 771.9 points followed by Sonia Rai of CISF with 762.6 and Anuraj Singh of Indian Airlines with 761.9.

Samresh Jung of CISF won the first position in 50m free pistol event securing 651 points while Omkar Singh and S Kumar of Navy had to be satisfied with the second and third positions respectively scoring 645.9 and 641.7 points.

In 25m pistol events, Shweta, Preeti and Nausheen won the first three positions scoring 570, 545 and 541 points respectively. The previous record was 578 points scored by Sonia Rai in 2000.

Amit Kumar scored 546 points in 50-m pistol event to win the gold and the previous record was 554 points scored by Jaspal Rana in 1994 at Kanpur. Kamlesh Chand and Deerghpal Singh scored 530 and 517 points to win the silver and bronze medals respectively.

INF Kids won the gold, Maharashtra won the silver and Chandigarh won the bronze in 50-m pistol team event. Amanpreet Singh (549), Amit Kumar (540) and Parmod Kumar (544) won the gold, silver and bronze medals in 50-m pistol event.

Ankit Negi and Arun Singh of UTTR won the gold and silver medals scoring 524 and 520 points while Prashant A Monde had to be satisfied with bronze scoring 507 points in 50-m pistol event.

In 25-m pistol event CRPF won the gold by securing 1636 points, Maharashtra won the silver with 1608 points and INF Kids bagged bronze with 1598 points.

In 50-m pistol event, Navy, Indian Airlines and Army won the gold, silver and bronze medals scoring 1630, 1626 and 1605 points.