Olympian shooters lead in the rifle events in Nationals

Olympic shooter Sanjeev Rajput finished on the top position in the qualification round of 50m Rifle Prone men's event, while another Olympian Anjali Bhagwat was in second spot in the 10m Rifle women's event at the 57th National Shooting Championship here today.
Ahead of the finals tomorrow, Sanjeev of Navy was leading with a score of 671.1, followed by two Army men -- Sushil Ghale on 616.6 points and Pankaj Gurung on 616.3 -- in the qualification round of 50m Rifle Prone.
Rakesh Manpat of Karnataka shot identical score of 615.9 to be in the fourth position at the Karni Singh shooting ranges here.

In Air Rifle women's 10 meter range event, Apurvi Chandela of Rajasthan was leading with 415.2 points, with Anjali Bhagwat of Maharashtra behind her on 414.7, followed by Punjab's Kiranjeet Kaur on a score of 414.6.
Apurvi is also on the first position in the junior women category of 10m Air Rifle event. Tamil Nadu's S Praveena was on second place with 414.3 points and Shalini Chahar of Uttar Pradesh was on third with a score of 413.4.
Navdeep Singh Rathore of Madhya Pradesh was on top of the 50m Rifle Prone Junior event with 614.1 points, while Daniyal Raza Zaidi of U P (611.7) was in second place and Subhankar Pramanick of West Bengal in third position on 610.7.