Ashi Chouksey crowned women's 50m Rifle 3P champion at National Shooting Championship
Anjum Moudgil won silver while Sakshi Sunil Padekar bagged bronze.
Local girl Ashi Chouksey bagged her maiden national title, overwhelming Anjum Moudgil of Punjab in the women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions (3P) final of the on-going 67th National Shooting Championship Competitions (NSCC) for Rifle events, here at her home MP State Academy (MPSA) shooting range. Ashi shot a superb 466.7, a full 3.1 points clear of two-time Olympian Anjum.
Upcoming talent Sakshi Sunil Padekar of Maharashtra won bronze with an effort of 451.3 and then went on to win a silver in the junior women’s 3P as well to round-off a successful day.
Ashi, who has been in great shooting form over the past two years and was also a part of the Paris Olympic trials, extended her run of good form with a solid 590 in qualifications, to get into the eight-woman match up in third place.
Bhakti Bhaskar Khamkar of Maharashtra topped the qualification field with a blazing 592, while Anjum qualified second, her effort of 590 containing more hits to the inner 10 ring than Ashi. While Sakshi took sixth spot, another Olympian Shriyanka Sadangi qualified seventh.
In the final however, Ashi brooked no opposition, opening up a 2.3 points gap over Anjum at the end of the first Kneeling position itself, which she maintained after the 15-shots in the second Prone position also. That increased to 2.9 after 10-shots of the last standing position and despite a few high 9s after that, the result was never in doubt.
In the junior women’s 3P Karnataka’s Anoushka H Thokur shot 460.5 in the final to upstage Sakshi, who settled for silver on 456.3. Haryana’s Nishchal, an ISSF World Cup silver medallist for India last year, shot 443.9 to settle for bronze.
Both Anjum and Sakshi did pickup gold on the day however, as they won the respective women’s 3P senior and junior team events. Anjum partnered fellow Olympian Sift Kaur Samra and Vanshika Sahi to total 1766 for the team gold, while Sakshi teamed up with Prachi Gaekwad and Saniya Sapale to clinch the junior women’s 3P team title with a tally of 1747.
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