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Saturday, January 30, 1999

Pemba Tamang fires fourth gold

Roopa Rao  
BANGALORE, JAN 29: Soft-spoken Pemba Tamang of the Army maintained his golden streak helping himself to his fourth gold of the competition on Thursday while ace shooters Jaspal Rana and Roopa Unnikrishnan got among the medals in the 42nd National shooting championships (international rules) at the JNR range in Sports Authority of India (Southern Centre) here on Friday.Pemba claimed the gold in air pistol junior mens' open and team events which gave him four gold in the meet. He also has to his credit one silver and one bronze.

Twenty-two-year-old Jaspal (CISF) won the men's air pistol (10M) open individual gold with a total of 679.8 points which was three points less than his record set in Asansol (1996). Roopa Unnikrishnan of Tamil Nadu who is all set to fly to the US and take up a job as management consultant, had the highest score in the 50 metres sports rifle prone for women, according to the provisional results provided. The final standings will be declared on the morrow. Saroja Kumari of the Army whocame to this championship with the intention of qualifying for the national squad, retained her gold in the 25M Sports Pistol 25 M with a total of 657.8.

Results

10 M Air Pistol: Open :Jaspal Rana (CISF-679.8) 1 Naresh Kumar (BSF-666.1) 2 Satendra Kumar (Navy-664.6) 3. Civilians: Sumit H Sanghvi (TN-567) 1 N Shanmugam (TN-559) 2 Prathikrit Ghosh (Mah-555) 3. Junior: Pemba Tamang (Army-555) Anunay Yadav (UP 553) 2 Anubhav Dhillon (CISF-551) 3. Civilians

Team: Maharashtra (Raj Khalid 542, Amol Chauhan 547, Shyam Bali 549; Total 1638) 1 Chandigarh (Daleep Singh Chandel-515, Parminder Singh 546, Anand Mehta 539; 1600) 2 Uttar Pradesh (Ramendra Kumar Sharma-521, Sarvesh Yadav-528, Amit Dhiman 549; 1598) 3. Junior Men: Army (Sakender Kumar-526, Pemba Tamang 555, Chaman Lal-530; 1611) 1 CISF (Abhinav Yadav-526, Anubhav Dhillon-551, Kamal Sain-532; 1609) 2 Maharashtra (Amol Chauhan 547, Ronak A Pandit 528, Majid Sheikh 513-513;1588) 3.

25 M Sports Pistol Women: Saroja Kumari (Army-657.8) 1 SushmaRana (CISF-652.6) 2 Baljeet Kaur (Army-649.8) 3.

50 M Sports Rifle Prone for women: (provisional results): Roopa Unnikrishnan (TN-587)1 Uma Panikker (Army-575) 2 Birmati (Army-575) 3. Team: Army (Anamika Dutta-566, A Philipose-567, Uma Panikker-575; 1708) 1 Tamil Nadu (Malathi David 554, Mary Preetha-564, Roopa Unnikrishnan 587; 1705) 2 Railway Sports Control Board (Anuja Tere 570, Suma Dixit 574, Rakhee Sawanth-551: 1695) 3. Juniors: Rajkumari (Infantry Kids-576) 1 M Dhareenee (TN-566) 2 Meena Kumar (Infantry Kids-558).

Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.


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