SHOOTING
Mairaj beats Thakur
Olympian and World Cup gold medallist Mairaj Ahmad Khan asserted his class yet again as he accelerated to a smart finish in grabbing the skeet gold in the Digvijay Singh shotgun championship at the Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad, on Sunday.
The 46-year-old Mairaj beat Arjun Thakur 35-30 for the gold, as he missed only one bird in the medal round. He had qualified on top in the semifinal with 27 hits, after having made the final with a modest score of 115, six points behind qualification topper Gurjoat Khangura.
‘’Final and semifinal are great. I am going to work only on qualification for the next three months’’, said Mairaj, understandably happy about the way he had competed despite not being at his best.
It was a similar case during the last World Cup in Changwon, when Mairaj had to win a shoot-off with four others after being tied on 119 for the last two berths, before racing to the gold.
Anantjeet Singh Naruka who had shot 120 in qualification lost the shoot-off against Amrinder Singh Cheema for a berth in the medal round.
It was Raiza Dhillon all the way as she won both the women’s and junior gold. Raiza beat qualification topper Ganemat Sekhon 36-35 for the women’s gold and beat Parinaaz Dhaliwal 33-32 for the junior gold.
Darshna Rathore had a chance to fight for gold but missed the last two birds and thus had to settle for the bronze.
The Results
- Kamesh Srinivasan
TENNIS
Prajwal Dev loses ITF men’s final
Second seed Eric Vanshelboim of Ukraine beat fifth seed SD Prajwal Dev 1-6, 6-4, 6-2 in the final of the $15,000 ITF men’s tennis tournament in Colombo on Sunday.
It was the fifth singles title in the professional circuit for the 21-year-old Vanshelboim, who had lost the semifinals last week to the eventual champion Manish Sureshkumar.
The results
- Kamesh Srinivasan
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