Sports
Smit's skeet double helps Punjab pip Maharashtra
Thrissur, Feb 8
Smit Singh bagged a golden
double in men’s skeet on the concluding day of shooting competitions in
the 35th National Games to help Punjab edge out Maharashtra and finish
second in the shooting medals tally at the Kerala Police Academy Range
here Sunday. Services finished on top.
Smit won the individual
gold with a combined finals score of 28 with the more fancied Mairaj
Ahmed Khan of Uttar Pradesh finishing second with an identical combined
score, but he lost out on a low score of 13 in the final round. Angad
Vir Singh Bajwa of Punjab won the bronze with 27.
Smit and Angad
also teamed up with Karam Sukhbir Singh to help Punjab bag the men’s
team gold in skeet. Their final tally of 329 was better than the 327
that of Parampal Singh Guron, Rajpal Singh Kocchar and Mohd. Hamza
Shiekh of Chattisgarh, who managed the silver. Services finished with
the bronze.
Services comfortably finished on top of the National
Games shooting medals tally with a total haul of 26 medals -- 15 golds,
four silvers and seven bronzes. Punjab won 15 medals -- seven golds, six
silvers and two bronzes wh