Deeksha vaishya

Maharana Pratap Sports College: Himanshu Dhillon of Haryana clinched a last shot win over Parth Rakesh Mane of Maharashtra in the men’s 10m air rifle final, even as Uttar Pradesh’s Deeksha Vaishya and Madhya Pradesh’s Suraj Sharma won their respective matches, as the first finals of the T4 national selection trials for Rifle and Pistol shooters, unfolded at the Trishul Shooting range of the Maharana Pratap Sports College in Dehradun on Sunday.

Himanshu was 0.2 behind Parth ahead of the 24th and final shot of the men’s air rifle final and a 10.6 to the latter’s 10.3, sealed the win by the narrowest of margins as Himanshu ended with 252.2 on the board. Delhi’s Parth Makhija took bronze.

In the women’s air rifle, Deeksha began strong, going into the lead in the second five-shot series and despite a strong field chasing her, held strong to ward off Ashi Chouksey by 1.2, finishing with 252.7. Railways’ Sonam Uttam Maskar took bronze.