Commonwealth Games gold medallists Anish Bhanwala and Manu Bhaker continued to assert their class as they won the junior men’s rapid fire pistol and junior women’s air pistol gold in the 28th Meeting of Shooting Hopes international championship in Plzen, Czech Republic, on Thursday.
Needing three points to win the gold in the final series, Anish wound up in style with a perfect five, to beat qualification topper Matej Rampula of the Czech Republic by three points.
The 16-year-old Manu topped qualification with 574 in air pistol, and beat Camille Jedrzeiewski of France by 4.6 points, after the latter was docked two points for not reporting on time for the final.
The results:
Junior men:
25m rapid fire pistol: 1. Anish Bhanwwala 33 (571); 2. Matej Rampula (Cze) 30 (578); 3. Anhad Jawanda 21 (574); 6. Adarsh Singh 9 (568).
50m rifle prone: 1. Dragomir Matei Iordache (Rou) 6-24.8; 2. Artem Filippov (Rus) 622.9; 3. Marco Suppini (Ita) 622.6; 24. Sam George Sajan Ramesh 615.9; 27. Pruthviraj Ayachi 615.1; 31. Fateh Singh Dhillon 613.8; 52. Ron George Valiyaveettil 605.8.
Junior women:
10m air pistol: 1. Manu Bhaker 238.7 (574); 2. Camille Jedrzejewski (Fra) 234.1 (569); 3. Martina Marsalkova (Svk) 212.9 (568); 7. Devanshi Rana 130.4 (568); 10. Esha Singh 566; 16. Mahima Turhi Agrawal 561; 23. Muskan 560; 31. Arunima Gaur 566.
50m rifle prone: 1. Nicole Gabrielli (Ita) 626.0; 2. Sheileen Waibel (Aut) 624.8; 3. Katerina Kolarikova (Cze) 623.2; 37. Bhakti Khamkar 612.4; 43. Ayushi Podder 611.7; 48. Kinnori Konar 609.7; 67. Shirin Godara 601.4.
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