Angad held off his senior and fellow Tokyo 2020 quota winner Mairaj Ahmad Khan, shooting a clean 60 to equal a record he officially jointly holds with Skeet legend Vincent Hancock and two others.
Mairaj missed a couple of targets to yet again go down to the youngster after the now famous quota-winning 1-2 run by the duo earlier this month at the Asian championships in Qatar.
Though earlier Mairaj shot a perfect 125 in qualifying to breeze into the final.Both Angad and Mairaj will be credited with National records however.
Saniya Sheikh stopped the Punjab juggernaut, bagging her third national title winning the Women’s Skeet in a shoot-off with state-mate Areeba Khan 10-8. Overnight leader Ganemat Sekhon could not produce the form which she had displayed in last two days.
Abhay Sekhon and Parnaaz Dhaliwal of Punjab also won the junior men’s and women’s Skeet golds respectively.
INDIA: SPORTS
ANGAD BAJWA, SANIYA SHEIKH WIN MEN AND WOMEN'S SKEET NATIONAL TITLES
Harpal Singh Bedi - 2019-11-29 17:24
New Delhi: Punjab's Angad Vir Bajwa and Uttar Pradesh's Saniya Shiekh upset favorites and four- round leader Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Ganemat Sekhon to win the the Men’s and women's Skeet titles respectively at the 63rdNational Shooting Championship Competitions here on Friday.