India's Sanjeev Rajput, Tejaswini Sawant win 50m rifle 3 positions mixed team gold
New Delhi: The seasoned Indian duo of Sanjeev Rajput and Tejaswini Sawant won the gold medal in the 50m rifle 3 positions mixed team event of the ISSF World Cup here on Friday.
The Indians beat Ukraine's Serhiy Kulish and Anna Ilina 31-29 in the gold medal match, using their years of experience to good effect to emerge victorious. The Indian gold count went up to 11 with their top finish.
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Sunidhi Chauhan won the bronze medal after getting the better of USA's Timothy Sherry and Virginia Thrasher 31-15 at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range.
To start with, Rajput and Sawant were 1-3 behind before leading 5-3.
But the visiting shooters then raced ahead of their opponents before the Indians made another strong comeback to regain the top position and from there on, the home team maintained the lead to end on a winning note
The Ukrainians tried to make a match of it but the home favourites managed to prevail in an exciting final.
In Qualification 2, Rajput and Sawant finished at the top with a total score of 588, with both the shooters getting 294 each.
While Tomar and Chauhan logged 580 to end the final qualification at fourth place and make the bronze medal round.
Kulish and Ilina were placed third with 583, ahead of the American duo of Thrasher and Sherry (581).
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4 killed, 27 injured in bus-truck collision on Jaipur-Bikaner National Highway
Jaipur (PTI): Four people were killed and 27 others injured after a bus collided head-on with a truck on Jaipur-Bikaner National Highway in the Sikar district of Rajasthan on Tuesday night.
The sleeper bus was travelling from Bikaner towards Jaipur when they rammed into each other.
The police said that four persons died in the accident, adding that 15 injured were admitted to the Sikar district hospital while 13 were given primary treatment at Fatehgarh. One critically injured person referred from the Sikar district hospital to SMS Hospital in Jaipur died during treatment, the police said.
The group of passengers was returning Gujarat after visiting Jammu and Kashmir when the accident occurred, the police added.
