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Madhya Pradesh’s Suraj Sharma delivered a aureate double, sweeping some the elder and inferior men's titles successful the 25m accelerated occurrence pistol astatine the National Shooting Championships present connected Friday (December 26, 2025).
Suraj began the elder last successful ascendant fashion, hitting 19 of his archetypal 20 targets, and went connected to adjacent the contention with 31 hits, finishing 3 wide of defending champion Vijayveer Sidhu of Punjab, who settled for the metallic medal with 28 hits.
Rajasthan's Bhavesh Shekhawat rounded disconnected the podium, claiming bronze with a full of 24 hits.
Earlier successful the qualification round, Ankur Goel topped the standings with a beardown people of 582-20x. He was followed intimately by Vijayveer, who changeable 580-18x, portion Adarsh Singh finished 3rd with 579-22x. Suraj qualified 5th with 579-12x.
Earlier successful the RFP inferior men final, Suraj produced different composed show to triumph the golden medal with 30 hits.
Mukeshi secured the metallic medal, finishing with 25 hits. Haryana's Jatin settled for the bronze medal with 22 hits aft a shoot-off, having earlier changeable 575-13x successful qualification.
In the elder squad category, Punjab claimed the golden medal with an aggregate people of 1725, led by Vijayveer, Udhayveer Sidhu, and Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu.
Haryana secured the metallic medal with 1722 done the combined efforts of Adarsh Singh, Mandeep Singh, and Sameer, portion the Navy claimed bronze with 1711, courtesy of Pradeep Singh Shekhawat, Rajat Kumar Yadav, and Omkar Singh.
