Anjum bags women's 3P title, win 5th gold in Natl Shooting

Anjum Moudgil continued her impressive run and won both the individual and team gold in women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions at the 61st National Shooting Championship Competitions (61st NSCC), here today.
On day five of the event at the National Games Shooting Range, Anjum representing Punjab, shot 457.6 in the eight- woman final to overcome Jammu and Kashmir's Shreya Saksena who shot 452.9 for silver.
Raj Chaudhary of the Army won bronze with a score of 439.5.
Having won the women's Rifle Prone and Mixed team titles on the previous days, today's two gold medals made it a total of five yellow metals for Anjum from the 61st NSCC so far.

Anjum's current form can be illustrated by the fact that she topped the women's 3P qualifiers with a new national record score of 586.
More experienced shooters such as Lajja Gauswami (second with 580) of Gujarat and former world champion Tejaswini Sawant (fifth with 578) of Maharashtra followed Anjum into the finals.

Earlier, Anjum's qualifying effort along with that of teammates Dilreen Gill and Avnish Kaur Sidhu got Punjab the team gold in the event as the troika combined for a total of 1730, well ahead of the silver medal winning Maharashtra team who managed a score of 1714.
Kerala won the bronze in the team event with a score of 1711.

Shreya Saksena later won two golds in the women's Junior and Junior Civilian 3P events.
Dilreen also won her second gold of the day by claiming the women's 3P Civilian championship.
A total of 4800 men and women shooters from across the country are participating in the 61st NSCC including 200 wild card entries.