Excelsior Sports Correspondent
New Delhi, Dec 14: Olympic Silver medallist Vijay Kumar of Army won gold in 25m Rapid Fire pistol event at the 57th National Shooting Championship while Punjab’s Angadveer Singh captured the yellow metal in the men’s Skeet Shooting and Andhra Pradesh shooter Rashmi Rathore won the Gold in womes’s Skeet event here today, at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Ranges, New Delhi.
Vijay shot gold with a fantastic score of 30 Hits in the Finals while Akshay Suhas of Maharashtra won silver with 28 hits followed by Army’s Pemba Tamang who bagged a bronze with 22 hits in the final of the event. Delhi’s Jaspal Rana was on the forth place with 13 hits and a qualification score of 559. while Vijay, Suhas and Pemba shot 559, 568 and 580 score respectively in the qualification round, positions changed after the finals. Vijay Kumar said that “I am regularly participating in different competitions to improve and maintain my performance.”
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