Chandigarh’s Vijayveer wins Jr 10m air pistol T2 event

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Shooter Abhishek Verma won the men’s 10m air pistol T2 event at the National Shooting Trials for rifle and pistol disciplines. Verma shot 243.8 in the final to outgun Shravan Kumar of Uttar Pradesh, who shot 243.4. Surinder Singh of Punjab finished third. Kumar finished second in the junior category of the same event as well, in which Vijayveer Sidhu of Chandigarh claimed the title with a final round score of 243.4 to Kumar’s 242.5. Earlier, Verma had reached the final courtesy a score of 578 in qualification. That effort meant he was fourth out of the eight to qualify. Gaurav Rana of the Air Force shot 581 to top the board, with Kumar’s 580 making him third to qualify. Ayushi Podder of West Bengal won the women’s 50m Prone T2 trials with a score of 621.7.

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