Air rifle junior women

National Shooting Championship Competitions: Maharashtra’s Ananya Naidu won the women’s 10m Air Rifle event of the ongoing 67th National Shooting Championship Competitions (NSCC) (Rifle) with a score of 252.5 in the final at the M.P. State Academy (MPSA) shooting range here on Tuesday.

She trumped the experienced Meghana Sajjanar of the Railways by a mere 0.2 points for a first senior national title. The bronze went to R. Narmada Nithin of Tamil Nadu, who bowed out with a score of 231.3.

The winner took a lead of 1.4 after the first five-single-shots series itself and never looked back. In the final two shots of the 24-shots final, both Ananya and Meghana scored a total of 20.6 points, enthralling audiences in the Finals Hall as well as those glued online.