Mehuli Ghosh wins women’s rifle event at National Shooting Trials, Ankur Goyal tops men’s rapid fire

National Shooting Test: Mehuli Ghosh of West Bengal and Ankur Goel of Uttarakhand won the women’s 10m Air Rifle T1 and men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol T2 events on the fourth day of the National Shooting Trials (Rifle/Pistol) for Group A shooters at the Karni Singh Shooting Range. did your name. In the gold medal match, Mehuli registered a 17-9 win over Tamil Nadu’s R Narmada Nithin, while Ankur defeated Rajasthan’s Bhavesh Shekhawat 29-25 in the medal round.

Narmada had topped the qualification with a quality of 633.5 after 60 shots, while Mehuli shot 631.2. Olympian Elaveni Valarivan, who won bronze, finished fifth in qualifying with 629.3. In the top eight, both Narmada and Mehuli topped the table with identical scores of 264.2 and clashed in the gold medal match.

In Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol T2, Ankur finished fourth in qualifying with a score of 580. Here too, eventual silver medalist Bhavesh topped the list with 585. Bronze medalist Vijayveer also finished fifth in qualifying with a score of 580. Bhavesh and Vijayveer then finished 1-2 in the first semi-final and were joined by Ankur and Anhad Jawanda who finished 1-2 in the second semi-final.

Significantly, Mehuli’s record so far has been excellent. He won the silver medal in the 10 meter team air rifle at the World Championship 2018. After this, in 2022, he won the bronze medal in the team air rifle. She has won gold medal in 10 Air Rifle in South Asian Games 2019. Earlier in the Commonwealth Games 2018, he won the silver medal in 10 meter air rifle.

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