Maharashtra’s Rudrankksh Patil and Punjab’s Sift Kaur Samra won back-to-back national selection trials for Group A shooters, emerging winners of the men’s 10m air rifle and women’s 50m rifle 3 positions (3P) T2 matches respectively.
Both the top international shooters had won the T1 trials at the same Dr. Karni Singh Shooting range (DKSSR) in Delhi on Sunday.
Rudrankksh, the 2022 men’s air rifle world champion, shot 253.3 in the final to win comfortably, while Sift was even more dominant, eventually ending with a tremendous score of 469.8, 0.2 over her own existing world record in the event.
Rudrankksh Patil’s Double
Former world champion Rudrankksh Patil has also been in rousing form in the new season after missing out on the Paris Olympics narrowly, and registered his second trials victory in two days with a mature showing in the men’s 10m air rifle.
He was second in qualification with 633.0 to eventual silver medalist Hriday Hazarika of Assam, though only on countback.
In the final he was on the money from shot one, a 10.4, and then led through all the pit-stops to leave Hriday 1.9 short after the regulation 24-shots. Gujarat’s Smit Moradiya won bronze.
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