Selection trial for first and second rifle and pistol shooting is being conducted at State Shooting Academy.
Under Selection Trial-2 on Thursday, final matches were played in 10m Rifle Senior Men and Junior Men and 50m Rifle Three Position Women Senior and Junior category.
In Main Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar of State Shooting Academy stood first. Deepak Kumar of Air Force stood second and Rudransh Patil of Maharashtra stood third. Avinash Yadav of the academy stood fourth.
Similarly, in the 10m junior main event, Uma Mahesh of Andhra Pradesh first, M.P. Avinash Yadav of Shooting Academy came second and Dhanush Srikanth of Telangana stood third.
In the 50m rifle three position women's senior event, Swift Kaur of Punjab was first, MP. Ashi Chouksey of Shooting Academy and Gayatri N. Ranked third. MP Mansi Kathait of Shooting Academy stood fifth and famous Mahant seventh.
In the 50m rifle three position women junior event, Swift Kaur of Punjab was first, MP. Mansi Kathait of Shooting Academy stood second and Surbhi of West Bengal stood third. MP Aashi Chouksey and Nupur Kumawat of Shooting Academy finished fourth and seventh respectively. With this, the Selexon trials in the Rifle Event ended on Thursday.
MP The players of the State Shooting Academy are undergoing training under the guidance of Chief Instructor of the Academy, Suma Shirur, Vaibhav Sharma and Aparajita Singh.
Meanwhile, two players of Madhya Pradesh State Women's Hockey Academy have been selected for the Junior World Cup, 2022 to be held in South Africa.
Notably, Hockey India has announced the 20-member squad of the Indian Women's Hockey Junior Team. The Junior World Cup is to be held in South Africa in the month of April.
Academy's Ishika Chaudhary has been made the vice-captain of the team. Academy player Bichhu Devi, who recently made her way into the senior team, has also been selected in the junior team. Khushboo Khan of Bhopal has also been selected in the team announced on Thursday.
State Sports and Youth Welfare Minister Yashodhara Raje Scindia has congratulated the selected players.
It is noteworthy that the chief coach of Madhya Pradesh State Sports Academy is Paramjit Singh Brar. He also expressed happiness over the selection of the players in the Indian Junior Team.