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Shooting: Sift Kaur And Niraj Kumar Win In Olympic Selection Trials
While Sri Karthik Sabari Raj: Sift Kaur Samra won her third (out of four) women’s 50M Rifle 3 Positions (3P) Olympic Selection Trial (OST) while Niraj Kumar, won the men’s 3P OST for a second time, as proceedings in the event concluded on the penultimate day of the OSTs 3&4 Rifle/Pistol at the M.P. State Shooting Academy range in Bhopal on Saturday.
Sift shot 461.3 in the women’s 3P OST T4 final to edge out Nischal by a point. Ashi Chouksey was third with 448.1. Shriyanka Sadangi and Anjum Moudgil were fourth and fifth respectively in the five-woman field.
In the men’s 3P, Niraj Kumar finished on top with a healthy 462.9, a whole 1.7 ahead of second-finishing Chain Singh. Aishwary Tomar was third with 449.8 while Swapnil Kusale and Akhil Sheoran finished fourth and fifth, respectively.
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