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Former World Champion Rudrankksh Patil: Maharashtra’s Rudrankksh Patil and Punjab’s Sift Kaur Samra won back-to-back national selection trials for Group A shooters, emerging winners of the men’s 10m air rifle and women’s 50m rifle 3 positions (3P) T2 matches respectively here on Monday.

Both the top international shooters had won the T1 trials at the same Dr. Karni Singh Shooting range (DKSSR) in Delhi on Sunday.

Rudrankksh, the 2022 men’s air rifle world champion, shot 253.3 in the final to win comfortably, while Sift was even more dominant, eventually ending with a tremendous score of 469.8, 0.2 over her own existing world record in the event.