Mane shoots down 1st senior national title

Shahu Mane clinched the gold medal in the men’s 10m air rifle event, while Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil set a new world record en route to winning the junior title at the National Shooting Championship.

Mane of Railways clinched his first senior national title, winning the 24-shot final by the thinnest of margins.

Also hogging the limelight was former world champion Rudrankksh of Maharashtra, who shot a sizzling 254.9 to win the junior final, surpassing the existing senior finals world record held by Olympics champion Sheng Lihao of China by a margin of 0.4.

It was Shahu who set the ball rolling at the MP State Academy Shooting range, shooting nothing below 10.1 in the final. The 22-year-old from Kolhapur, who began shooting in 2015 and has won an ISSF World Cup gold in the air rifle mixed team as well as an individual silver in the Youth Olympics, managed to hold off a late surge by Dhanush Srikanth.