Second shotgun national shooting trials

Second Shotgun National Shooting Trials: Olympian Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Ganemat Sekhon finished on top in the skeet finals of the Second Shotgun National Shooting Trials, held at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in the National Capital Region (NCR) here on Friday.

Mairaj shot 55 in the final, edging out Paris Olympian Anantjeet Singh Naruka, who shot 54, by a single shot. Ganemat also secured victory by a one-shot margin, finishing with 53 ahead of Maheshwari Chauhan’s 52. Angad Vir Singh Bajwa and Parinaaz Dhaliwal finished third in the men’s and women’s categories, respectively.

Earlier, in the final two rounds of qualification, Bhavtegh Singh Gill shot 22 and 24 to add to his 73 from Thursday, qualifying in first place. Mairaj totalled 118, while Smit Singh with 117, Angad with 116, and Anantjeet with 115 completed the top six qualifiers.