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Journalism of Courage
PHILLAUR, DEC 12: A fight that was expected to be a keenly contested one turned out to be one sided when Army8217;s AP Subbiah entered the final of the 50 metres rifle three position event with a lead of 15 points fetching another gold for the Army by an easy 13 point win over teammate TC Palangappa in the National shooting being held at the Punjab Police Academy on Sunday.
To win the silver, Palangapppa too did not face any competition from bronze medalist Samsher Singh representing the BSF and both the Army shooters who earlier won the gold and bronze in the same event during the recently concluded Commenwealth Games, continued their domminance.
However, once again the day belonged to Army shooters who wom six medals but were deprived of the limelight by upcoming Navy shooter Manoj Kumar. This Navy shooter set a new national record in the junior category of same event. Manoj not only broke the six-year-old record set by Ram Lal Kumete in 1993 with a score of 1105.
RESULTS :
Rifle 3 positionindividual civilian: Vishwajit Shinde RSEB 1124.0, Joydeep Banerjee RSCB 1094.0, Nilesh Rane RSCB 1091.0. Rifle 3 Position Open team event: Army AC Palangappa, Ashok Kumar, A Psubbiah 8212; 3410; Navy Bishnu Nag, PT Raghunath, Manoj Kumar 8212; 3337; BSF Akhileash Rai, M Shankar, Samsher Singh 8212; 3307. 50m Rifle 3 position men open individual: AP Subbiah Army; 1252.0; TC Palangappa Army 1239.6; Samsher Singh BSF 8212; 1228.5. 50 rifle 3 position junior men team event open: Army Sudhir Paul, Binash Thapa, Rakesh Kumar 8212; 3228. 50 rifle 3 positon junior men open individual: Manoj Kumar Navy 8212; 1124.0; Sudhir Paul Army 8212; 1094.0; Binash Thapa Army 8212; 1081. 50 rifle 3 postion junior men civilian: Vinod Loima KK Mah 8212; 1014.0; Bhuvaneshwara Singh Rathore WHP 1011.0.
