Former world champion Manavjit Singh Sandhu clinched gold in the men’s trap event at the 60th National shotgun Shooting Championship on Saturday.
Manavjit shot 117 in qualifying to reach the six-man final rounds in fourth spot. He then shot 12 out of 15 birds in the semi-final stage to make it to the gold medal match and defeated silver winner Raninder Singh, who was representing Odisha, 14-13, to seal the top spot.
Olympian Kynan Chenai of Telengana bagged the bronze medal beating Adhiraj Singh Rathore of Rajasthan 14-12.
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