Gun For Glory: UP tops medals tally

Pune, Aug 8 (IBNS) Uttar Pradesh shooter Aayushi Gupta threw the women's rifle event open when she fired world class score of 396 in her qualification round to make it to the women's 10m air rifle final pushing two-time Olympian Anjali Bhagwat to fourth position in the Gun For Glory Shooting championship at the Balewadi Ranges here on Monday.

Aayushi, who had got past 392 only once, was a revelation as she opened with a 99 and then fired perfect 100 before letting out another 99 and closed in her series with a 98 to sneak ahead of Anjali in third position by virtue of her 30 inner 10s as against 29 by Anjali.

In the finals slated on Tuesday, it will be livewire action as inform Suma Shirur, who posted 397 on the opening day of ISSF ranking event, and Priya Agarwal take on Aayushi and Anjali.

The men's 10m air rifle event also saw slight upheaval as Parmendra Kumar of Army leapfrogged to the top of the heap after Aribam Dicky Sharma had held the position for two days. Parmendra too shot 593 as does Aribam had, but he had 43 bulls eyes to 40 of Aribam. Also, Parmendra shot two perfect rounds of 100s, and a 99 and three 98s.

Maharashtra shooters Ramesh Mali and Fulchand Bangar were the only civilians in the final of men's air rifle that otherwise should see a battle between Army and Navy shooters.

In the pistol events, there was no such upheaval as those who had their qualification rounds on Monday failed to get into the top eight, that make it to the final.

The 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games' 'best athlete', Samresh Jung was still out of touch with his scores as he managed 369, four shots behind Vijay Kumar SM of Army, the last shooter to make it to the 8-man final.

UP steal show from Maharashtra:

Uttar Pradesh topped the medals tally with five gold, three silver and one bronze medal besting the home shooters by one extra yellow metal. By numbers though State collected 10 medals as against nine by Uttar Pradesh, but it was Neha Tokas of Delhi whose three medals alone pushed the National capital state to the third in the tally.

Results:

ISSF Ranking (finalists):

10m Air Rifle:

Men: 1. Parmendra Kumar (Army) 593, 2. Aribam Dicky Sharma (Army) 593, 3. PT Raghunath (Navy) 591, 4. Ramesh Mali (Mah) 590, 5. Ashok Karande (Rlys) 589, 6. Fulchand Bangar (Mah) 589, 7. Chain Singh (Army) 589, 8. Bishnu Nag (Navy) 588.

Women: 1. Shirur Suma (Rlys) 397, 2. Priya Agarwal (Rlys) 397, 3. Aayushi Gupta (UP) 396, 4. Anjali Bhagwat (Mah) 394, 5. Radhika Barale (Rlys) 394, 6. Gurjeet Kaur (NCC) 394, 7. Neha Sapte (Mah) 393, 8. Shweta Devadi (Mah) 392.

10m Air Pistol:

Men: 1. Omkar Singh (Navy) 578, 2. Om Prakash (Army) 576, 3. Vijay Singh (Army) 576, 4. Gurpreet Singh (Army) 575, 5. Deepak Sharma (AI) 575, 6. Satendra Kumar (Navy) 573, 7. Vipin (UP) 573, 8. Vijay Kumar SM (Army) 573.

Women: 1. Heena Sidhu (Pun) 387, 2. Annu Raj Singh (AI) 382, 3. Shweta Chaudhry (ONGC) 382, 4. Neha Tokas (Del) 380, 5. Rahi Sarnobat (Mah) 378, 6. Sarvesh Tomar (CRPF) 376, 7. Sonia Rai (HP) 375, 8. Lakhbir Kaur Sindhu (Pun) 374.

Medal winners:

10m Air Rifle:

Men Civilian: 1. Ramesh Mali (Mah) 590, 2. Ashok Karande (Rlys) 589, 3. K Purushotham (Kar) 587.

Junior Men: 1. Aribam Dicky Sharma (Army) 593, 2. Rakesh Manpat (Kar) 586, 3. Navdeep Singh Rathore (MP) 584.

Junior Men Civilian: 1. Pankaj Desai (Mah) 585, 2. Navdeep Singh Rathore (MP) 584, 3. Jaskaranjeet Singh (Pun) 584.

Youth Men: 1. Nitin Chavan (Mah) 578, 2. 2. Karan (Mah) 576, 3. Ekambir Singh Mandi (Pun) 575.

Handicapped Men: 1. Naresh Kumar Sharma (Cht) 560, 2. Sidhartha Babu BK (Ker) 544.

Women Civilian: 1. Aayushi Gupta (UP) 396, 2. Gurjeet Kaur (NCC) 394, 3. Vinita Bhardwaj (UP) 390.

Junior Women: 1.Neha Sapte (Mah) 393, 2. Babbandeep Kaur (Pun) 392, 3. Aprajita Singh (MP) 392.

Junior Women Civilian: 1. Aprajita Singh (MP) 392, 2. Vinita Bhardwaj (UP) 390, 3. Ayonika Paul (Mah) 390.

Youth Women: 1. Aayushi Gupta (UP) 396, 2. Vinita Bhardwaj (UP) 390, 3. Supriya Borchate (Mah) 390.

10m Air Pistol:

Men Civilian: 1. Vipin (UP) 573, 2. Nikhil Singh (ONGC) 572, 3. Jitendra Vibhute (Rlys) 572.

Junior Men: 1. Vipin (UP) 573, 2. Mukul Singh Bhandari (Army) 572, 3. Karanpratap Singh Randhawa (Pun) 571.

Junior Men Civilian: 1. Vipin (UP) 573, 2. Karanpratap Singh Randhawa (Pun) 571, 3. Akshay Jain (Pun) 568.

Youth Men: 1. Vivek Kumar (Uttr) 565, 2. Rohit Tomar (Army) 563, 3. Sachin Chauhan (Army) 563.

Handicapped Men: 1. Sunil Patel (Guj) 532, 2. Praveen Kumar (UP) 528.

Women Civilian: 1. Neha Tokas (Del) 380, 2. Rahi Sarnobat (Mah) 378, 3. Anita Devi (Har) 373.

Junior Women: 1. Neha Tokas (Del) 380, 2. Surabhi Pathak (MP) 373, 3. Ruchi Singh (IA) 372.

Junior Women Civilians: 1. Neha Tokas (Del) 380, 2. Shreya Gawande (Mah) 372, 3. Prerna Gupta (Uttr) 369.

Youth Women: 1. Diksha Rajput (UP) 370, 2. Vallari Accava Cariapa (Del) 362, 3. Vaidehi Salunke (Mah) 362.

Handicapped Women: 1. Dilraj Kaur (Uttr) 346.

Medals Tally: 1. Uttar Pradesh 5-3-1, 2. Maharashtra 4-3-3, 3. Delhi 3-1-0, 4. Uttarakhand 2-0-1, 5. Madhya Pradesh 1-2-2, 6. Army 1-2-1, 7. Chattisgarh 1-0-0, 8. Gujarat 1-0-0, 9. Punjab 0-2-4, 10. Railways 0-1-1, 11. Karnataka 0-1-1, 12. NCC 0-1-0, 13. ONGC 0-1-0, 14. Kerala 0-1-0, 15. Haryana 0-0-1.