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Sift, Ganemat, Anantjeet win natl shooting titles

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New Delhi, Nov 29: Reigning Asian Games gold medallist Sift Kaur Samra cinched her second consecutive women’s 50m rifle 3-positions title, getting the better of senior Punjab state-mate Anjum Moudgil in the National Shooting Championship here on Wednesday.
Ganemat Sekhon and Anantjeet Singh Naruka, arguably India’s number one women’s and men’s skeet shooters at present, added another feather to their cap by winning maiden individual senior national titles at the Karni Singh Ranges.
Sift shot 465.7 in the final to clinch gold, pushing Anjum (463.8) to second spot. Ashi Chouksey of Madhya Pradesh came third with a score of 452.
Sift and Anjum also earned the team gold for Punjab.
Earlier, young Haryana shooter Nischal created a new qualifications national record with a score of 595. That effort helped her top the round with Sift taking the second place with a score of 593.
In skeet, Punjab’s Ganemat and Rajasthan’s Anantjeet took contrasting paths towards the same result.
Ganemat shot a below-par 116 in qualification and had to come through a five-way shoot-off for four final qualifying places, before shooting down 56 targets to win the 60-shot women’s final.
In men’s skeet, Anantjeet shot at a different level, registering a pillar to post victory. In the six-man final, he gunned down 58 out of 60 targets to leave silver-winning Munek Battula well behind on 55. (PTI)

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