Pankaj Mukheja won the men’s 50m rifle 3-position title, while Haryana shooting pair Nancy and Rhythm Sangwan topped the women’s 10m air rifle and 25m pistol events respectively in the national team test shot here. Pankaj, 21, edged out Paris Olympics quota winner Swapnil Kusale 16-12 in a hard-fought match. The rating was headed by local player and India’s best marksman (50m rifle 3 positions) Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar with a score of 591.

However, he missed out on reaching the gold medal match in the qualifying round. In the qualifying round, he scored 407.4 while Swapnil was second with 408. Pankaj topped with 413.7 points. In the women’s 10m air rifle, Nancy beat West Bengal’s Mehuli Ghosh 16-10 on the third day of the Group A national team trials. Mehuli topped the qualifying round with a score of 633.8 among 42 players, but Nancy bested her in the final. Rhythm Sangwan continued his stellar performance with 32 accurate shots in the 25m pistol medal competition. Neha from Uttar Pradesh came in second with 31 targets and Isha Singh from Telangana came in third with 21 targets.

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