Hyderabad: Hyderabad teenager Esha Singh starred with a triple gold at the 62nd National Shooting Championship being held in Trivandrum, Kerala, upstaging quality fields on her way to sweeping the women’s air pistol events on Thursday.
Thirteen-year-old Esha won the Women’s, Youth Women’s and Junior Women’s 10m Air Pistol competitions, leaving behind names such as Heena Sidhu, Manu Bhaker and Shweta Singh.
Esha shot 241.0 in the Women’s final to leave behind Youth Olympic games champion Manu Bhaker who finished with 238.9. Shweta Singh representing ONGC won bronze with a score of 217.2.
Esha qualified seventh in the eight-woman finals field with a score of 573 in qualification. Manu topped with a 578 and the final had such names as champion shooter Heena Sidhu, former junior world champion Yashaswani Singh Deswal and India international Shri Nivetha among others.
Esha made full use of her good form with a virtuoso performance in the Youth Women’s and Junior Women’s events as well where again she got the better of Manu in the latter and pushed her to third in the other. In all Esha won five medals on the day to turn out the absolute star of the day.
In other events Army’s Satyendra Singh won the Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions crown leaving behind Haryana’s Sanjeev Rajput. Satyendra shot 454.1 in the finals to Sanjeev’s 452.5. Air Force’s Parul Kumar shot 442.4 to clinch the bronze medal.
