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Fourth Shotgun selection trials scheduled to be staged at the Madhya Pradesh Academy in Bhopal
The best Indian shooters, including Ganemat Sekhon and Darshna Rathore who had recently won the silver and bronze medals in the World Cup in Almaty, Kazakhstan, will be in action in the fourth National shotgun selection trials scheduled to be staged at the Madhya Pradesh Academy in Bhopal from Tuesday.
There will also be Maheshwari Chauhan, Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Areeba Khan, Karttiki Singh Shaktawat, and Rashmmi Rathore among other women skeet shooters apart from Ganemat and Darshna.
There are 18 women skeet shooters in the field.
Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Gurjoat Khangura, Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa find themselves in the same squad in the men’s skeet competition. Abhay Singh Sekhon and Mohd. Sheeraz Sheikh completes the lineup in the competitive group.
The men’s skeet has 24 shooters.
There will be three rounds on the opening day of the competition. Two more rounds and the final will be staged for the skeet shooters on Wednesday.
After a day of training, the trap shooters will have a competition spread over three days from June 16 to 18, with the first two days having only two rounds each.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
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