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Bhopal, 13 May (HS). In the selection trials being held at the Madhya Pradesh State Shooting Academy in the capital Bhopal for the Paris Olympics, on Monday, shooters Manu Bhakar and Adarsh Singh became the winners in the qualification round of women's 25 meter pistol and men's 25 meter rapid-fire pistol respectively. All five shooters from both men's and women's categories will now compete in the final on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Anish Bhanwala took a good lead of four points from the first precision stage into the second rapid-fire stage, but was overtaken by Adarsh on countback, with both of them scoring the same number of 24-hits in the inner 10 to score 583. Posted. Ankur Goyal also scored a similar score, but had 10 fewer hits in the inner ring, while Vijayveer Sidhu finished fourth with 581, scoring only one inner-10 more than Bhavesh Shekhawat.
In the women's category, Olympian Manu Bhaker defeated Isha Singh in the inner-10. Both of them scored the same score of 586. Whereas, Rhythm Sangwan stood third, while Abhidanya Patil (582) and Simranpreet Kaur Brar (564) stood fourth and fifth respectively. Taking the full count and best-of-three scores, Manu and Isha are placed in the top two positions in the women's event, while Anish and Vijayveer are placed 1-2 in the men's RFP. Now the final match is on Tuesday. The final team for the Paris Olympics will be announced after the selection committee meeting after the trials.
