NRAI Trials: Bhavesh Shekhawat wins 25m RFP Trial 2

NRAI Trials: Bhavesh Shekhawat wins 25m RFP Trial 2

Rajasthan’s Bhavesh Shekhawat was the comfortable winner of the Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol T2 competition, part of the NRAI trials.

After a slow start, Bhavesh shot 5s in three consecutive series to get himself into the lead. Some consistent shooting thereafter ensured he ended up with a score of 32, well-ahead of Arpit Goel’s 27. Adarsh Singh of Haryana finished 3rd. The scores today were much better than those of T1 held yesterday.

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Yesterday’s winner Gurpreet Singh with 580 topped qualifications yet again, but a poor string of scores in the finals meant he was eliminated 5th. Bhavesh qualified 6th with 576-18x, an improvement from his T1 score of 567. Anish Bhanwala narrowly missed qualifying, finishing 7th with 576-15x.

Women’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol T2

The top three in the non-Olympic Women’s 25m RFP T2 competition were Aakanksha Bansal (548), Arunima Gaur (544) and Tejaswani (542). No finals were held.

With this the NRAI trials 1 and 2 conclude. Trials 3 and 4 for rifle/pistol events will be held from 8th to 14th February 2021.