Manu Bhaker Tops Shooting Charts in Olympic Selection Trials
Manu shot 240.8 in the OST T4 10m air pistol final at the MP State Shooting Academy ranges, leaving Hangzhou Asian Games champion Palak a huge 4.4 points behind in second. Rhythm Sangwan took the third spot.
Olympian Manu Bhaker emerged as the most successful shooter in the Olympic Selection Trials (OST) Rifle/Pistol, winning the women’s 10m air pistol trial 4 on the concluding day of the exercise here on Sunday.
Overall, this was Manu’s fourth win in the trials across two events, the other being the women’s 25m sports pistol.
Manu shot 240.8 in the OST T4 10m air pistol final at the MP State Shooting Academy ranges, leaving Hangzhou Asian Games champion Palak a huge 4.4 points behind in
second. Rhythm Sangwan took the third spot.
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Earlier, Elavenil Valarivan won the women’s 10m air rifle OST T4 with a score of 254.3, 0.3 above the current world record of 254.0 set by China’s Han Jiayu in the ISSF World Cup in Baku this month.
Ramita (253.3) and Mehuli Ghosh (230.3) were second and third respectively.
Divyansh Panwar won the men’s air rifle OST T4 with a score of 253.3, just 0.4 below his own existing world record. Arjun Babuta (250.0) and Rudrankksh Patil (229.5) were second and third respectively.
In men’s 10m air pistol OST T4 final, Ravinder Singh emerged triumphant with a score of 242.2. He was followed by Varun Tomar (239.4) in second and Sarabjot Singh (218.9) in third.
The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) conducted a series of four trials in Delhi and Bhopal in pistol and rifle to select the squad for the Paris Olympics.
The top-three scores in the trials along with Paris Olympics quota bonus points will count towards the selection of the Indian squad for the Summer Games.
At the conclusion of the nearly month-long exercise, the top-two in pistol and rifle categories have been identified.
If the NRAI goes strictly by the results of the trials, Sarabjot Singh and Arjun Singh Cheema should represent the country in men’s 10m air pistol at the Paris Olympics as they took the top two spots among five shooters at the end of the trials. In that case, Olympic quota winner Varun Tomar will miss out.
In women’s 10m air pistol, Manu Bhaker and Rhythm Sangwan are the toppers in the trials, while Esha Singh and Palak — both Paris quota winners — are placed fourth and fifth.
Army man Sandeep Singh has been the surprise package of the trials, topping the exercise in men’s 10m air rifle while pushing Arjun Babuta to second spot.
World champion Rudrankksh Patil, who was among the first to win an Olympic quota for the country, is third and could be the biggest loser in the exercise.
In women’s 10m air rifle, both Olympic quota winners Tilottama Sen and Mehuli Ghosh, who won the Paris quota spots for India, did not finish among the top-two with Elavenil Valarivan and Ramita taking those spots.
Another shooter, who could could most likely miss out on a Paris berth is Olympic quota winner Shriyanka Sadangi, who finished fifth in women’s 50m rifle 3-positions, with Sift Kaur Samra (quota winner) and Anjum Moudgil taking the top two spots and staking their claims to represent the country in the Summer Olympics.
However, the NRAI will take a final decision on the squad for Paris after a selection committee meeting, which is likely to take place soon.
Indian shooters will next be seen in action in the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol (May 31-June 08) in Munich.
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