Friday 10 November 2017

North Zone Shooting Championship Concluded with Highest Number of Participants in Delhi


NEW DELHI : 10 NOVEMBER, The 37th North Zone Shooting Championship ends with record entries participation, more than 4000 shooters from across the North Indian states participated in this event. Initially Punjab shooters were leading in most  of the events, but at the end Delhi and Haryana Shooter's performed better at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range. This competition was organised by Delhi State Rifle Association and conducted by National Rifle Association of India. At the final prize distribution ceremony DSRA Chairman Padmashree Jaspal Rana thanked all the officials and participants to make this event a grand success. Indian Revenue department's senior officer Arjun Chandra Maharishi honored the medal winner shooters. 

Olympic Silver medalist shooter Vijay Kumar won 2 gold and a silver medal at 25 meter range in different events. Haryana's Vijay Kumar shot 569 in 25 mtr standard pistol event to win the gold, Mahaveer Singh of Rajasthan scored 565 for silver and Samresh Jung of CISF had to satisfied with bronze medal on 557 points. 

Vijay Kumar also won Gold medal in 25 mtr Rapid Fire pistol event on a score of 572, Harpreet Singh of Haryana and Arpit Goel of Delhi won silver and bronze medal on 570 and 565 scores. 
Ace shooter Samresh Jung clinched the gold medal in 25 mtr Center Fire pistol event by scoring 584, Vijay Kumar 580 and Harpreet Singh 576 both from Haryana won silver and bronze in this event. 
Junior world record holder Yashaswini Singh Deswal of Haryana won gold medal in 10 mtr Air Pistol event with 380 points. Haryana's Manu Bhaker gave a tough fight and shot 378 to win silver, while Rajasthan's Yasha Singh scored 376 for a Bronze medal. 

Delhi's Mahima Singh won another gold medal on 25 meter range in Sports Pistol NR event with 282 points, Tanu Rawal 278 and Tejaswini Singh 275 got silver and bronze medal in this event. 
Nishant Dalal of Haryana won a gold medal in 50 mtr 3 Position ISSF Junior men event with 1151 points, Delhi's Nishant Malik shot 1134 for silver medal and Kunaksh Verma of Punjab got bronze medal on 1115 points. 

Bhawana Chaudhary of Haryana grabbed gold medal in Double Trap ISSF women event by shooting 84 clay pigeons, Rukman Katyal of Delhi shot 76 for silver and Punjab's Prabsukhman Kaur shot 72 to get bronze medal. 

In Double Trap Shooting men event, Shardul Vihan of Uttar Pradesh scored 131 to win gold medal, Shapath Bhardwaj of Uttarakhand shot 127 for silver and Delhi's Vikram Bhatnagar shot 123 for bronze. 

Double Trap shooting NR event, Anushka Singh Bhati of Rajasthan shot 34 clay pigeons for gold medal, Ishika Chaprana of Delhi scored 29 to get silver and Pravjot Kaur Panesar got bronze medal on 27 point score. 

In Double Trap Shooting NR Junior event, Gold and silver medal went to Punjab on an identical score shot by Jaswinder Singh and Gurpratap Singh, while Delhi's Vardaan Bhatnagar won Bronze medal as he shot 36 clay pigeons at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range
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