Sift Kaur Samra won her third women’s 50m rifle 3 position competition while Niraj Kumar emerged victorious in the men’s event for the second time on the penultimate day of the Olympic Selection Trial (OST) 3 and 4 in Bhopal on Saturday. Sift scored 461.3 in the women’s 3P Test 4 final to edge Nischal by one point. Ashi Chouksey was third with 448.1. Shriyanka Sadangi and Anjum Moudgil came fourth and fifth respectively in the five-woman field. In the men’s 3P, Niraj finished on top with a healthy 462.9, a full 1.7 ahead of second-placed Chain Singh.
Aishwary Tomar came third with 449.8, while Swapnil Kusale and Akhil Sheoran finished fourth and fifth respectively.
The results confirmed Sift as the best placed in the women’s 3P, considering three best scores in the four events.
Anjum Moudgil also confirmed her position as second best in the competition among the five qualified shooters. In men’s 3P, Aishwary Tomar and Swapnil Kusale finished 1-2 after competing in four trial matches.
Clarity in aerial events
The day also saw the qualification rounds of the men’s and women’s 10m air rifle and air pistol event 4.
While Sri Karthik Sabari Raj topped the men’s air rifle with a score of 631.6, Ramita Jindal was the star of the day, posting a brilliant 636.4 (0.1 more than the existing world record set by China’s Han Jiayu at the Baku World Cup earlier this month) to cover the women’s air rifle.
Ramita’s effort meant she was now second in the overall calculation, just 0.1 behind Olympian Elavenil Valarivan, whose score of 633.0 took her to the top of the rankings.
Ramita at the beginning of the day was in fourth position. Mehuli Ghosh (633.1) came second, while Nancy (630.6) and Tilottama Sen (628.8) came fourth and fifth respectively.
In the men’s air rifle, the results did not influence the classification, as Sandeep Singh (fourth with 628.3) and Arjun Babuta (fifth with 624.7) maintained the first two positions in the calculations.
Manu Bhaker confidently topped the women’s 10m air pistol classification, finishing first in the qualifying round of test 4 with a score of 581.
Surbhi Rao (577) was second while Palak (572) was third. Rhythm Sangwan came fourth on the same score as Palak but lost in the indoor 10, while Esha Singh came fifth with 572.
In the men’s air pistol, Sarabjot Singh scored 584 to top the 4 test qualifications, while Arjun Singh Cheema came second with 583. Varun Tomar (577) was third, Ravinder Singh (576) fourth and Naveen (574) finished fifth.
The results in the air pistol mean that, in current calculations, Manu and Rhythm are 1-2 in the women’s air pistol, while Sarabjot and Arjun occupy the top two positions in the men’s event.
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