Sarabjot and Manu clinch mixed air pistol gold

Sports Bureau

Sarabjot Singh and Manu Bhaker clinched the mixed air pistol gold for Haryana, as the duo outclassed Divya T.S. and Imroz Ahmed 16-4 in the National shooting championship at the Madhya Pradesh Academy in Bhopal.

The Haryana pair had topped qualification with 575 and outplayed the Karnataka team, which was only two points away in the first stage.

Amanpreet Singh and Shweta Singh won the bronze for Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and so did Arjun Singh Cheema and Arshdeep Kaur for Punjab.

Uttar Pradesh that won the junior and youth gold medals, through Anjali Chaudhary-Sagar Dangi and Sahill-Sanskriti Bana.

Anjali and Sagar beat the qualification toppers Yashasvi Joshi and Abhinav Deshwal of Uttarakhand in a thrilling fashion 18-16.

In the double trap competition at the Dr. Karni Singh Range in Delhi, Ajay Mittal won the gold with 128 points, as he beat his younger brother and former world champion, Ankur Mittal, by two points.

Shaikh Mosin won the bronze, by winning the shoot-off with four others, Siddhartha Pawar, Anant Shivam Pratap Singh, Sangram Dahiya and former national champion Mohd. Asab, after being tied on 125.