24th Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting Championship: Army’s rifle shooter Ganga Singh wins men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions gold

West Bengal’s Adriyan Karmakar clinched the junior men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions title with a score of 360.2.  

Winners of men’s 50m rifle 3 position. Picture credit NRAI

Army’s rifle shooter Ganga Singh clinched men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions gold at the 24th Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting Championship being held at the Madhya Pradesh State Shooting Academy in Bhopal. 

Ganga Singh shot a total of 357.8 in the final to finish on top of the podium. Railways’ Arjun Babuta secured the silver medal with 356.9, while Olympic bronze medalist representing Railways Swapnil Suresh Kusale claimed bronze with 343.7. Army’s Sidharth Gaur finished fourth with 332.3.

In qualification, Punjab’s Harjas Singh topped the field with a score of 586-25x, followed by Maharashtra’s Rudrankksh B. Patil with 584-31x. Arjun Babuta shot 584-28x to qualify third, while Swapnil Kusale secured fourth place with 583-31x.

At the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi, Haryana’s Kamaljeet Choudhary and Surbhi Rao emerged victorious in the 10m Air Pistol Senior Mixed Team ISSF event.

 In the 10m Pistol mixed team the Haryana pair topped the qualification round with a score of 576-17x before clinching the gold medal in the final with a score of 476.6. Karnataka’s Mamith N Gowda and Divya T.S., who had qualified fourth with 573-17x, settled for silver after scoring 472.5 in the final. ONGC’s Amanpreet Singh and Shweta, who also shot 573-17x in qualification, secured the bronze medal with a score of 409.3. Gujarat’s Vaibhavi and Jinesh had qualified second with 574-11x and eventually finished fourth.

West Bengal’s Adriyan Karmakar clinched the junior men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions title with a score of 360.2. Haryana’s Rohit Kanyan secured the silver medal with 350.5, while Rajasthan’s Prince took bronze with 336.1. Maharashtra’s Vedant Nitin Waghmare finished fourth with 328.1.

In qualification, Vedant Nitin Waghmare topped the field with a score of 580-26x, followed closely by Adriyan Karmakar with 580-24x. Madhya Pradesh’s Priyavrat Singh Tomar qualified third with 579-22x, while Prince secured fourth place with 578-16x.

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