Ghosh clinches women's 10m air rifle gold in National T2 trials

Bhopal: Mehuli Ghosh of West Bengal beat Karnataka's Tilottama Sen 17-9 to clinch gold in the women's 10m air rifle National T2 trials here on Sunday. Mehuli had earlier finished second in the T1 trials on Friday. Tilottama, however, won the junior women's 10m air rifle T2 trial. She also finished second in the youth T2 competition, for a profitable three-medal day.

Mehuli, a Youth Olympic Games silver medallist, had shot 630.1 on Saturday to qualify for the top-eight stage in the sixth position. Gujarat's Elavenil Valarivan topped the field with 632.1.

From the two semi-finals on Sunday, Mehuli, Tilottama and Elavenil were joined in the medal match by Haryana's Ramita. Here, Elavenil settled for bronze with 37 points while Mehuli (48) and Tilottama made it to the title round.

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