Ajit Karn
In the National Selection Trials, the winners were Divyansh, Vijaveer, Sift, Anant Jeet, and Ganemat.
On the second day of the National Rifle and Pistol Selection Trials at the M.P. State Shooting Academy Range in Bhopal, Olympian Divyansh Singh Panwar, who recently lost his place in the Indian team for the upcoming world cup in Baku, regained a semblance of his form while Sift Kaur Samra and Vijayveer Sidhu improved theirs. Anant Jeet Singh Naruka and Ganemat Sekhon won the men’s and women’s skeet trials, respectively, at New Delhi’s Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range (DKSSR).
Former world number one Divyansh Singh Panwar was in extraordinary shooting form in the men’s 10m air rifle T4 qualification round in Bhopal, recording a score of 636.3. At the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup held in Bhopal, India, last month, China’s Sheng Lihao shot a world-record qualifying score of 635.4 on his way to winning gold. The fact that the Jaipur boy won by nearly a point says a great deal. In addition to qualifying, he topped the 25-shot ranking round and defeated Surya Pratap Singh Banshtu 16-12 in the gold medal match to capture the winner’s incentive.
Sift Kaur Samra of Punjab, who earned her first-ever ISSF medal, a bronze, at the Bhopal World Cup, won the women’s T4 50m rifle 3 positions (3p), defeating state-mate and Olympian Anjum Mougil, 16-4, in the gold medal match. Tejaswini Sawant, a veteran Olympian, finished in third place.
In the medal match for the men’s 25m rapid fire pistol (rfp), India’s Vijayveer Sidhu won 30 points to outshoot Adarsh Singh 30-24 to give Punjab yet another victory. Olympic silver medalist Vijay Kumar came in third with 17 points.
Abhinav Shaw of West Bengal won the men’s 10m air rifle competition, Nikita Kundu of Haryana won the women’s 3P competition, and Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu won the juvenile men’s 25m competition.
Anant Jeet Singh Naruka, a veteran skeet shooter from Rajasthan, won the men’s skeet trials at the DKSSR with 39 strikes. Olympian Angad Bajwa was in fourth place with 17 strikes, trailing overnight leader Gurjoat Singh Khangura of Punjab by 37.
The triumvirate had also qualified for the semifinals in the same order, with Anant Jeet and Gurjota finishing first and second, respectively, with 123 out of 125 hits after the former defeated the latter in a shootout (2-1) to determine rankings. During qualifying, Angad shot 119.
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Ganemat established her dominance as India’s top female skeet shooter by claiming an easy victory in the event. She shot 118 to finish second in qualification, behind Parinaaz Dhaliwal’s 119, and went on to win the semi-final with 29 shots and the championship with 37 hits. The second-place finisher, Rajasthan’s Darshna Rathore, had five strikes fewer than her, totaling 32.
