Mehuli Ghosh asserts her class yet again
After the high of shooting 633.0 in the first match, the 18-year-old Mehuli had to grapple with an equipment malfunction that resulted in a poor shot, to fight her way with the last score of 621.8 in the eight-member final.
Published : Feb 02, 2019 20:31 IST
Mehuli Ghosh continued to assert her class and courage as she fought back from the brink of elimination in qualification to strike her second successive gold in women’s air rifle in the InterShoot international shooting championship at the Hague. After the high of shooting 633.0 in the first match, the 18-year-old Mehuli had to grapple with an equipment malfunction that resulted in a poor shot, to fight her way with the last score of 621.8 in the eight-member final. Mehuli had a series of 104.0, 99.5, 106.2, 104.5, 105.0 and 102.6, quite below par by her high standards. However, in the final, she was her normal self shooting 248.7 to win the gold 0.7 point ahead of Gao Mingwei of China who had shot 631.0 in qualification.
READ: 'It's a miracle': Karmakar can't stop gushing about golden girl Mehuli Vinita Bhardwaj also extended her fine run to take the bronze, after an impressive qualification score of 630.0. Qualification topper Zhang Binbin (632.0) finished fourth. Olympian Ayonika Paul made the final but finished seventh. The Indian shooters continued to excel as former national champion Dharmendra Singh won the men’s air pistol gold, while Jitu Rai took the bronze. The other leading shooters Shahzar Rizvi and Om Prakash Mitharval also had it good as they made the final. Sandeep Singh won the men’s air rifle, ahead of two Chinese. Deepak Kumar finished fourth after shooting 628.4 in qualification, as he missed progress towards the medals by 0.9 point. Akshat Seth won the gold, ahead of qualification toppers from Norway, in junior air rifle, after qualifying with a modest 613.8. Heena Sidhu won the women’s air pistol silver behind Afaf Elhodhod of Egypt, while qualification topper Zhang Mengxue (584) of China was pushed to the third place.
| The results:Men: Air pistol: 1. Dharmendra Singh 246.4 (583); 2. Julio Almeida (Bra) 243.9 (579) 3. Jitu Rai 223.1 (579); 6. Shahzar Rizvi 159.9 (580); 7. Om Prakash Mitharval 139.7 (577); 13. Ronak Pandit 572. Junior men: 1. Bastian Strack (Ger) 237.4 (572); 2. James Miller (Wal) 235.9 (573); 3. Jan-Hendrik waldvogt (Ger) 215.6 (571); 6. Deepak Dhariwal 155.7 (570); 7. Milan Chaudhary 130.2 (556). Air rifle: 1. Sandeep Singh 251.5 (628.6); 2. Yu Haonan (Chn) 249.9 (624.5); 3. Liu Yuqi (Chn) 228.6 (626.8); 4. Deepak Kumar 207.0 (628.4); 5. Vishwajeet Singh Jhala 185.8 (623.8); 8. Rahul Lal Chauhan 120.8 (622.8); 9. Pankaj Kumar 617.6; 11. Saurabh Singh 616.8; 27. Ashwani Bhati 598.9; 31. Nitesh Prakash 581.8. Junior men: 1. Akshat Seth 247.8 (613.8); 2. Jon-Hermann Hegg (Nor) 247.1 (621.6); 3. Aleksander Teisrud (Nor) 225.0 (621.9); 13. Dharya Goyal 585.2. Women: Air pistol: 1. Afaf Elhodhod (Egy) 239.3 (571); 2. Heena Sidhu 238.6 (570); 3. Zhang Mengxue (Chn) 218.0 (584); 6. P. Shri Nivetha 155.2 (575); 17. Gauri Sheoran 552. Junior women: 1. Karen Quezada (Mex) 236.3 (559); 2. Harriet Watson (Eng) 224.9 (534); 3. Hannah Beishaw (GBR) 204.4 (532); 5. Mufaddal Deesawala 163.9 (549). Air rifle: 1. Mehuli Ghosh 248.7 (621.8); 2. Gao Minggwei (Chn) 248.0 (631.0); 3. Vinita Bhardwaj 227.5 (630.0); 7. Ayonika Paul 143.6 (625.9); 30. Rajshree Sancheti 605.1. |