Anish Bhanwala on top in fourth National shooting selection trials at the Madhya Pradesh Academy

Anish Bhanwala was on top, both in final and qualification in rapid fire pistol in the fourth National shooting selection trials at the Madhya Pradesh Academy on Tuesday.

Anish shot 35 in the final to beat Gurmeet by four points in the final for the top spot. He had qualified with 588, three points ahead of Gurmeet. Olympian Gurpreet Singh shot 582 in qualification but finished sixth, behind KM Ranjith and Neeraj Kumar.

Olympic silver medallist Vijay Kumar shot 570 for the tenth place.

In men’s air rifle third trial, Arjun Babuta topped with 253.7, beating Kiran Jadhav by 1.8 point. The qualification topper Sri Karthik Sabari Raj (633.2) placed third.

It was a lively competition as the top eight shooters, except Kiran, shot better than 630. Gurjant Singh, srinjoy Datta, Dhanush Srikanth, Yash Vardhan and Vijay Singh were the others to make the final.

In women’s rifle 3-position event, Ayushi Podder topped with 459.7, two points ahead of Vidarsa Vinod. It was another high scoring contest as all the finalists shot 581 or more. Heena Gohei placed third ahead of Nischal, Manini Kaushik, Tejaswini Sawant, Bhakti Bhaskar and Vanshika Shahi.