The 50m three position men's, junior, senior and team event finals and 25m sports pistols were played on Wednesday under the 63rd National Shooting Championship Competition being played at the Madhya Pradesh State Shooting Academy.
Women junior, senior and team events were played. The prize distribution was conducted by Collector Bhopal Tarun Pithode. He reached the shooting range and observed the 10 meter, 25 metre and 50 meter range. He watched the final of the 50m Three Positions Junior Men's Event and congratulated the winning player Aishwarya Pratap Singh of Madhya Pradesh State Sports Academy.
All the winning players were rewarded by Pithode with a medal. On this occasion, Secretary of Indian Rifle Association, Rajiv Bhatia and Pawan Kumar, Director and Joint Secretary of the competition, Rifle Association of India were specially present.
The players of Madhya Pradesh State Shooting Academy performed brilliantly to win three gold medals. Star player and Aishwarya Pratap Singh, who won India's Olympic quota, set a new national record by scoring 1175 out of 1200 in the qualification round in the individual event of 50m junior three position prone.
Aishwarya Pratap Singh won the gold medal with 455 points in the junior 50m three position men's individual event. In this competition, three players from Madhya Pradesh Aishwarya Pratap Singh, Akash Patidar and Harshit Binjwa were in the final. Akash Patidar finished fourth with 428 points.
Harshit Binjwa finished seventh with 394 points. The gold medal of the competition was won by Aishwarya Pratap Singh. The silver medal went to Rishi Girish from Kerala and the bronze medal to Satnam Singh Tiwana from Punjab.
In the 50m Rifle Three Position Junior Men's Team event, the team of Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar, Harshit Binjwa and Akash Patidar finished first with 3480.0 points.
In the Punjab team, Satraj Singh Tiwana, Fateh Singh Dillon and Ishant Bansal earned the silver medal with 3,412.0 points and Uttar Pradesh's Sanskar Havelia, Pratham Bhadana and Naveen Dagar won bronze with 3,371.09 points.
In the 50m rifle three position senior men's team event, the team of Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar, Goldie Gurjar and Harshit Binjwa defeated the team of Navy and Army with 3487.0-157.00 points, winning the gold medal of the senior 50m rifle three position team event Name done. Navy team Rahul Punia, Neeraj Kumar and Ajay Thakur earned silver with 3487.0-151.00 points.
The team of Army Marksmanship Unit players Selection Singh, Kailash Chand and Zahid Hussain won bronze medal with 3481.0-140.00 points.