LONDON, Aug 6:
Indian shooters ended their Olympic campaign on a dismal note as medal contender Gagan Narang and Sanjeev Rajput crashed out of men’s 50m rifle 3 positions event in the qualifying stage, while Manavjit Singh Sandhu also failed enter the finals in the men’s trap here today.
Narang, who secured the first medal for India in London by bagging a bronze in the men’s 10m air rifle event on July 30, performed below par to finish 20th in a field of 41 competitors in the qualification round, while Rajput ended at a lowly 26th spot to end any hopes of making the finals.
Only the top eight went through to the medal round.
Manavjit totalled 119 out of a possible 125 with rounds of 24 24 22 25 and 24 to finish 16th out of 34 competitors in the men’s trap qualification round.
He shot pretty well except for a 22 in the third round that dented his chances in the end as only top six shooters advance to the finals.
The shooters, thus, ended their show here with a haul of one silver (Vijay Kumar in 25m Rapir Fire Pistol) and one bronze (Narang).
Four years ago Abhinav Bindra had provided the golden touch in the same event in which Narang won third place in the London Games while Bindra drew a blank in the same category.
The 29-year-old Narang fell by the wayside today as he totalled 1164 points out of a possible 1200 with rounds of 398 377 and 389 in Prone, Standing and Kneeling, respectively at the Royal Artillery Barracks here.
In the Prone category, Narang, who won four gold medals in the 2010 Commonwealth Games, started off brilliantly by shooting 100 in his first round followed by 99 100 and 99 in the next three series for a total of 398 out of 400.
However, he went off the boil in the Standing round as he misfired as many as 23 shots to log a poor 97 90 96 94 for a dismal total of 377, which saw him slip down the ladder. (PTI)
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