Saroja, Shweta, Jung disappoint

Commonwealth Games gold medallist Saroja Kumari and Shweta Chowdhary had a disappointing outing in the women's 25m Sports Pistol event at the ISSF World Cup Resende in Brazil, finishing 31st and 33rd respectively.

Saroja tallied 564, which included 281 (91,96,94) in precision and 283 (95,93,95) in the rapid stage.

Shweta aggregated 563 (289+274). She fired a series of 97,93,99 in precision and in the rapid stage shot (94,91,89).

Anisa Sayyed shot 564 in the MQS (minimum quota score). She scored 278 (94,91,93) in precision and 286 (96,95,95) in rapid.

Another Indian in the fray, Sonia Rai, who won the bronze medal earlier in the 10m Air Pistol, fired 288 (95,96,97) in precision and 271 (91,90,90) in the rapid stage.

Jasna Sekaric of Serbia won the gold medal with a score of 784.7 (584+200.7) and the silver went to Maria Pilar Fernandeze of Spain for 783.2 (580+203.2). Renata Sike of Hungary bagged the bronze with an effort of 782.4 (585+197.4).

Samresh Jung shot a score of 536 in the elimination round of the men's 50m Free Pistol event. The Commonwealth Games hero fired a series of 85, 89, 96, 91, 91, 84.

However, Jung invited a two-point penalty after he complained about the machine at his point and shifted to another.

According to ISSF rules, if a shooter complains during sighting shots about the correct recording or evaluation of the shots, the jury may offer to move him to another firing point.

When jury examined the sighting shots on the original firing point, it showed that the target provided correct results and Jung was penalised with the deduction of two points from the lowest value shot of the first competition series.

Other two Indians -- Vivek singh and B Biji -- shot a score of 542 (90,90,89,91,92,90) and 539 (87,91,92,93,85,91) respectively.