Rakesh, Mampi & Anirudh win golds in National shooting c'ship

Rakesh Manpat clinched the 50 meter Rifle Prone Gold, Mampi Das won the Gold in 10m Air Rifle event, while Anirudh Singh claimed the Gold of Trap Shooting on a day when big names came tumbling down at the 57th National shooting championship here today.
In men's 50m Prone Rifle event, Rakesh Manpat of Karnataka beat Olympians like Gagan Narang and Joydeep Karmakar at the Dr. Karni Singh Range here.
Rakesh scored 207.9 in the finals to win Gold, Joydeep Karmakar of Railways could only manage 206.1 to won Silver, while Olympic medallist Gagan Narang had to satisfied with Bronze after scoring 183.6 score and another Olympian Sanjeev Rajput of Navy was on the fourth place with 162.2.

While Joydeep was on top in the qualification round with 619.1, Sanjeev Scored 617.1, Gagan shot 616.6 and Rakesh was on sixth place with 615.9 in the qualification round.
Army team of Sushil Ghale, Pankaj and Hariom won Gold medal of 50m Rifle Prone with a score of 1844.3, while Uttar Pradesh team of Ishan Goel, Anubhav and Ajeet Kumar claimed Silver with 1836.6 points and Railway team consisting of Jaydeep, Partha Ghash and Pankaj bagged the Bronze with a score of 1830.7.
Ishan Goel of Uttar Pradesh won Gold in 50m Rifle Prone Junior event with 614.8 score, Navdeep Singh Rathore (614.1) of Madhya Pradesh clinched Silver and UP Shooter Daniyal Raza Zaidi (611.7) claimed Bronze.

In the Finals of 10m Air Rifle event, Mampi dramatically defeated all the toppers of the qualification round.

Mampi of West Bengal shot 208.2 and bagged the Gold, while Maharashtra's Ghatkar Poooja Pandharinath succeeded to maintain her second position in the finals by shooting 205.9 to win silver and Rajasthan's Apurvi Chandela remained 3rd in the final with 183.9 score to bag the Bronze medal.
Olympian Anjali Bhagwat was fourth in the finals as well as in the qualification. She scored 174 and 414.7. While Railway's Ayonika Paul topped the qualification round with 415.9, but slipped to sixth position in the finals.

Ghatkat Pooja and Apurvi scored 415.7 and 415.2 in the qualification round.
In the junior Trap shooting, Olympic silver-medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore's teenaged son Manavaditya clinched double golds.