Patiala girls shine in national shotgun event

Tribune News Service

Patiala, November 17

Patiala girls created history and brought laurels for the city and the state as they helped Punjab win medals in the 60th National Shotgun Championship in progress at Jaipur. The girls outshined their rivals, both in individual and team events.

Sajneet Rehal bagged the silver medal in the junior women’s trap event. “I am extremely happy to have received the silver medal as I had been training hard from the past six months”, she said. Meanwhile, in the trap event, the senior women team comprising Rajeshwari Kumari, Sajneet Rehal and Sukhreet Kaur bagged the bronze medal.

Further, the Punjab skeet junior and senior women stole the show at the championship. Ganemat Sekhon shot a score of 66 and equaled the junior National Record in the qualifying round and won the individual Silver medals in both senior and junior events.

In the junior category, all three individual medals were won by Punjab with Asees Chinna winning the gold medal, Ganemat silver and Simranpreet Johal bronze medal. The junior Punjab skeet team comprising Ganemat Sekhon, Asees Chinna and Simranpreet Johal won the gold medal in the team event. “The team events are totally a different game as compared to individual event. We backed each other and together we performed well to win a medal”, said the trio. 

Meanwhile, in the senior women skeet event, the team comprising Jasmeen Kaur, Asees Chinna and Parinaz won the gold medal.