Palak Gulia tops women’s air pistol shooting trials

Asian Games gold medallist, Palak Gulia beat qualification topper Shital Desai by 1..4 to top women’s air pistol in the third national shooting selection trials at the Madhya Pradesh Academy on Thursday.

The 18-year-old Palak shot 242.0 after qualifying with a modest score of 578. Shital had shot 581. Suruchi placed third ahead of Anjali Shekhawat, Jasmin Kaur, Surbhi Rao, TS Divya and Pranjali Dhumal.

In men’s air pistol, Amit Sharma shot 242.6 in the final to beat qualification topper Sharvan Kumar (586) by 0.4 point. Olympian Gurpreet Singh placed third. Aditya Malha who had also shot 586, Omprakash Mitharval, Ajay Ambawat, Udhayveer Sidhu and Rahul were the others to make the final.