Former world number 1 Heena Sidhu returned to form in the pre-Olympic year when she bagged top honours in both the team as well as individual women's 10M air pistol events at the XV Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting Championships.
Heena was representing Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) at the newly built Central Polytechnic Campus Shooting Range in Trivandrum.
Heena, a Commonwealth Games gold medallist, had been in indifferent form since being anointed world number 1 in the 10M air pistol discipline in April last year, before shooting gold at the recently concluded National Games with a high quality 200.8 score in the finals.
She did an encore in the individual event today to signal that the National Games performance was not a one-off, before teaming up with Shweta Singh and Shilpi Bisht to win the team event as well.
In other notable results of the day, Harpreet Singh of Haryana also continued his golden run and won the gold in the men's 25M Standard Pistol event with a score of 565 in the finals.
He beat Rajesh Kumar of the Army in a shoot-off, while London 2012 silver medallist Vijay Kumar bagged the bronze with a score of 564.
This was Harpreet's second gold in two days of competition after having won the rapid fire pistol event yesterday.
Vijay and his teammates Gurpreet Singh and Vijesh Kumar from the Army Marksmanship Unit won the gold in the 25M Standard Pistol Men's Team event. They shot a total of 1675 in the finals.
In the Women's 50M Rifle 3 Positions event, local girl Elizabeth Susan Koshy won the gold with a final round score of 449, beating Anjum Moudgil of Haryana and Lajja Gauswami of Gujarat.
