Tilottama tops 10m Air Rifle Women trials; Mane, Sidhu too win

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Tilottama Sen during Women's 10m Air Rifle Final successful  Ahmedabad. File.

Tilottama Sen during Women's 10m Air Rifle Final successful Ahmedabad. File. | Photo Credit: VIJAY SONEJI

In-form shooter Tilottama Sen produced yet different coagulated amusement to unafraid the apical spot successful the T1 finals of the women's 10m Air Rifle lawsuit successful the National Selection Trials, successful Delhi connected Thursday (January 22, 2026).

Shahu Tushar Mane of Railways won successful the men's event, portion Vijayveer Sidhu claimed apical spot successful 25m Rapid Fire Pistol T2 astatine the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range.

Tilottama, who produced a ascendant showing successful the 50m Rifle 3 Positions events earlier this week, demonstrated composure and power successful the final.

Junior National Champion Tilottama entered the last arsenic the eighth and past qualifier, having scraped done with a people of 630.8, but roseate steadily to decorativeness connected apical with 253.4.

Railway’s shooter Sonam Uttam Maskar, who had qualified astatine the 5th spot with 631.2, mounted a beardown situation earlier settling for 2nd spot with 252.8 successful the final.

Madhya Pradesh’s Nupur Kumrawat with 230.5 (631.2) claimed the 3rd place.

Shruti of Haryana, who led the qualification circular with 633.2, finished 5th spot with 187.9.

Maharashtra’s Isha Anil Taksale (209.0), Arya Rajesh Borse (123.7), R Narmada Nithin (166.2) and Railways’ Mehuli Ghosh (145.3) were the different finalists.

In 10m Air Rifle men, Mane, who had qualified 5th with 632.6, secured apical spot with 253.9, portion Haryana’s Arshdeep Singh took the 2nd spot with 251.1 and 3rd slot went to Maharashtra’s Parth Rakesh Mane (230.5).

Haryana’s Samarvir Singh finished conscionable extracurricular the medals successful 4th spot with 209.2.

Olympian Arjun Babuta of Railways, who led the tract successful qualification with an awesome 635.1, was incapable to replicate that show successful the last and concluded the contention successful the sixth spot with 166.4.

Maharashtra’s Gajanan Shahadev Khandagale (187.7), Rudrankksh Patil (144.5) and Himachal Pradesh’s Surya Pratap Singh Banshtu (123.5) were the different finalists.

Vijayveer Sidhu clinches golden successful 25m Rapid Fire Pistol

Olympian Vijayveer Sidhu changeable 31 hits successful the T2 last to unafraid the apical spot successful the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men.

National champion Suraj Sharma, who dominated the qualification circular with 588-22x, had to settee for 2nd spot aft hitting 29 successful the final.

Punjab’s Udhayveer Sidhu accumulated 25 hits successful the last to assertion 3rd place.

World Championship metallic medallist Anish Bhanwala, who qualified 3rd with 582-24x, finished 5th successful the last with 15 hits, down Navy’s Omkar Singh, who logged 18 hits.

Uttarakhand’s Ankur Goel (9) and Army shooter Neeraj Kumar (5) completed the last line-up, portion Pradeep Singh Shekhawat did not commencement the last aft qualifying 4th with 581-19x.

Published - January 23, 2026 02:51 americium IST

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