Manu in exceptional form in Olympic trial
Manu Bhaker was in exceptional form in the women’s 25m sports pistol nal, shooting 47 out of 50, in the rst Olympic selection trial at the Dr. Karni Singh Range on Saturday. She had seven perfect rounds of ve, and three fours.
Her e«ort was six points better than the world record held by Yang Jin of Korea.
The 22-year-old Manu, who shot 582 in qualication, will see 0.60 point added to her score for winning the nal as per the selection procedure.
Rhythm Sangwan, the world record holder in the event, nished second, ahead of Abhidnya Patil, Simranpreet Kaur Brar and qualication
Singh (585).
The 20-year-old Rhythm had shot 574 in qualication on Friday.
With Esha and Simranpreet (583) shooting big, not to forget Manu, Rhythm will have a lot to catch up. topper Esha
However, with four selection trials scheduled, all the shooters have the chance to leave out their lowest score. In the current policy, there is no bonus point for world record or world rank.
Interestingly,
Rhythm and Esha
Manu, are in the race for berths not only pistol but in air well.
In men’s 25m rapid re pistol, Anish Bhanwala emerged the best as he beat fellow Olympic quota winner Vijayveer Sidhu 3327.
Adarsh Singh was third, ahead of qualication topper Bhavesh Shekhawat (580) and Ankur Goel.
The same set of events will continue over the next two days for the second set of trials. The third and fourth trials will be held in Bhopal in May.
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The results:
25m rapid fire pistol: Men: 1. Anish Bhanwala 33 (578); 2. Vijayveer Sidhu 27 (579); 3. Adarsh Singh 23 (572).
1. Manu Bhaker 47 (582); 2. Rhythm Sangwan 39 (574); 3. Abhidnya Patil 32 (577).