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Lakshay shot 47 to win the 50-shot final while his cousin Neeru, who represents Madhya Pradesh, trapped two targets less, to come out on top of two very closely contested finals.
Indian trap shooter Lakshay Sheoran (X)
Asian Games silver medallist of Haryana and local favourite Neeru won the men’s and women’s trap titles at the 3rd Digvijay Singh Memorial Shooting Championship for shotgun events here on Thursday.
On the final day of the tournament at MP State Academy (MPSA) Shooting range, Lakshay shot 47 to win the 50-shot final while his cousin Neeru, who represents Madhya Pradesh, trapped two targets less, to come out on top of two very closely contested finals.
Lakshay, thanks to a great start to the final, managed to fend off a super finish by Delhi’s Fahd Sultan as he ended two targets short of the winner.
Qualification topper Suleman Arsh Elahi of Rajasthan won bronze even as Olympian Prithviraj Tondaiman finished fifth.
In the women’s final, it was an even closer fight and also provided by a Delhi shooter in the form of Kirti Gupta.
However, one miss in the last 10 proved her undoing as Neeru clinched it by one in the end. This final also had a lone Olympian in Punjab’s Rajeshwari Kumari, but unlike Prithviraj, she did manage to pick up the bronze with a tally of 34 hits from the first 40 targets.
In the junior men’s final, recently crowned junior national champion Vinay Pratap Singh Chandrawat of Rajasthan continued his good early season form, shooting down 43 targets to win gold.
Yugan SM of Tamil Nadu won silver with a hit less while another Rajasthan shooter Udhav Singh Rathore won bronze to make it a double podium for his state.
Another recently crowned junior national champion Shreshtha Sisodiya repeated her win over Uttar Pradesh’s Sabeera Harris in the junior nationals two weeks back to claim yet another gold after prevailing 2-1 in shoot-off. Both competitors were tied at 41 hits after the regulation 50 targets.
The men’s masters trap final was won by Tamil Nadu veteran Govindaraj Thiruvenkatam, as he got the better of state mate Abhimanyu Prakash. Govindaraj ended with 36 hits to Prakash’s 34. Uttar Pradesh’s Inderjit Singh won bronze.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)
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Bhopal, India, India
