New Delhi : 5 November(National24News)Punjab shooters are shining in the 37th North Zone Shooting Championship, at Delhi's Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range. Specially at the shotgun range Punjab shooters are performing very well. Punjab's Amrinder Singh Cheema won gold in skeet shooting while Parinaaz Dhaliwal won Gold and a silver in skeet events. Delhi's Mahima Singh won a Gold medal in 25 meter Sports Pistol event. Ace shooter Samresh Jung honored the medal winners at the first prize distribution ceremony of the competition.
Delhi State Rifle Association is organizing North Zone Shooting Championship this year. DSRA Chairman and famous shooter Padmashree Jaspal Rana said ''More than 4000 shooters from all northern states are participating in this competition, most of them are young children. This competition could be possible by the cooperation of Sports Authority of India and the efforts of DSRA and NRAI officials, it was cancelled by SAI, before a few days of starting due to some technical reasons. But we requested to SAI officials that shooters and their parents will suffer, as the competition was fixed before 2 months and participants and their parents from all north India states have booked their flight and train tickets as well as accommodations in Delhi. Jaspal Rana with DSRA officials met SAI DG and told him the scenario, DG SAI took it very positively and allowed this competition after discussing with other officials. Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range's administrator also cooperated us and supporting in organizing the north zone shooting smoothly.''
DSRA Secretary and Organizing Secretary of the competition Rajiv Sharma told that ''Young children are shooting very high scores in most of the events of shooting. Punjab is leading in this competition followed by Haryana. We will have to develop a better sports culture for more success at the inter-national level sports. Our young generation has potential.''
Results;
10 mtr Pistol ISSF men event; Tinjit Dhanota on Punjab scores 580 to win Gold medal, Anmol Jain of Haryana shot 576 to get Silver, and Pawan Yadav of Uttar Pradesh win Bronze medal with the same score of 576.
25 mtr Sports Pistol NR Junior women event; Delhi's Mahima Singh won Gold medal with 282 points, Silver and Bronze medal won by Haryana Shooters Tanu Rawal and Tejaswini Singh with 278 and 275 scores.
Skeet Shooting ISSF men; All three medals went to Punjab Shooters, Amrinder Singh Cheema won the gold medal by scoring 121, Abinash Pratap Singh Sidhu got silver with 117, and Gurnihal Singh Garcha won bronze medal on 116 score.
Skeet Shooting NR men; Subeg Singh Dhatt of Punjab won the double Gold medal in this event including junior men category with a good score of 46, Mohd Asad Sultan of Uttar Pradesh shot 32 to win silver and Adhiswar Singh Rathore of Rajasthan scores 30 for a bronze medal.
Skeet Shooting ISSF women; This section of shotgun shooting was also captured by Punjab, Parinaz Dhaliwal clinched the gold medal by shooting 68 clay pigeons, Simran PreetKaur Johal scored 66 for a silver medal and Jasmeen Kaur got bronze medal on 63 points.
Skeet Shooting ISSF junior women; Rajasthan's Karttiki Singh Shaktawat shot 71 to win the gold medal, silver and bronze medals won by Punjab shooters Parinaaz Dhaliwal 68 and Simran PreetKaur Johal 66.
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