Former world champion and world record holder Tejaswini Sawant won the women’s 50m rifle prone event at the 16th Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting Championship under way at the National Games sho
Former world champion and world record holder Tejaswini Sawant won the women’s 50m rifle prone event at the 16th Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting Championship under way at the National Games shooting ranges near Thiruvananthapuram on Monday.
Tejaswini shot 618.4 to edge out V. Srinithi Abirami of Tamil Nadu for the gold. Srinithi shot 618.1, just 0.3 points off Tejaswini, while veteran Kuheli Gangulee claimed bronze with a final score of 617.7
The other events of the day were dominated by shooters belonging to the Army Marksmanship Unit with Om Prakash leading a clean sweep in the men’s 50m pistol event.
Om Prakasha won gold with 191.7 while his colleague and namesake clinched silver shooting 189.5 in the final.
Gurpal Singh ensured none of the medals in the event went outside the unit shooting a score of 164.3 for the bronze. The team gold in the event also went to the AMU. The unit also took gold in the men’s 10m air rifle team category.
Milan Preet Singh of Punjab however bucked the trend when he shot gold in the 10m air rifle individual event with a score of 205.7 in the finals. Navy’s Nigam Prasad Parida came in second while the bronze went to yet another armyman, Aribam Dicky Sharma.
