Promising shooters Harveen Srao and Sweta Chowdhary's hopes of competing in next year's Olympic Games came down crashing as they failed to qualify for the finals of women's pistol event at the Asian Championships in Kuwait on Saturday.
Shweta, missed the finals on the last card basis after she shot 383 out of 400 but was ranked as 10th due to her low last card while Harveen and Nausheen Fathima were further behind with scores of 377 and 363 respectively to leave India with no representation in the event at Olympics.It was a similar story in women's 50m rifle 3 position event as no Indian could make the finals with Anjali Bhagwat, who is already a quota place holder in the event, shooting 570/600 while Meena Kumari and Tejswinin Sawant returned figures of 568 and 566 respectively.Raj Kumari, who was shooting for Minimum quota Score (MQS) shot 576.In the Rapid Fire Pistol event for men, Pemba Tamang shot 290/300, Vijay Kumar 284 and Harpreet Singh 274 at the half way stage.
The remaining rounds will be shot on Sunday to decide the quota place'.
Junior shooters, however, continued to bring laurels for the country by bagging one silver and two bronze medals in various events on Saturday.
Lajja Goswami won her second bronze medal in 50M Rifle 3 Position junior women event. She shot 656.7 (560+96.7).
In the team event, Lajja (560), Anu Tomar (551) and N Saini Devi (557) won the silver medal.
The gold medal went to China, who top scored with 1702 while the bronze went to Taipei for carding 1655.
Heena Sidhu, making her international debut, won the bronze medal in junior air pistol women event.
She fired 379+99.5 while shooters from China and Taipei shot 481.2 and 480.7 respectively for the first and second positions.
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