Tinjit shocks Jitu Rai, Prakash

PUNE: Punjab's

Tinjit Dhanota

upstaged Olympians Jitu Rai and PN Prakash on the way to clinching the 50m pistol gold on the opening day of the

Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial shooting

championship in Delhi on Thursday.

Tinjit qualified in the eighth place with a score of 550 as against Rai's 556 and Prakash's 555 while

Deepak Malik

topped with 562. But Tinjit was in terrific form in the final as he emerged on top with 230.3.

His teammate

Arjun Singh Cheema

narrowly lost the gold (230.0) while

Gurpal Singh

took the bronze (206.0)

Rai was eliminated earliest to finish eighth while Prakash (169.6) was sixth behind Malik (187.8).

There was an upset in the 25m pistol women's event as well as Haryana's Chinki Yadav out-shone Heena Sidhu and Rahi Sarnobat to claim the gold.

Chinki (572) qualified fifth for the eight-woman final but held her nerves in the final to emerge triumphant with a score of 34. Maharashtra girl Rahi, who topped the qualifying (583), grabbed the silver with a score of 30 while Heena (579) took the bronze with 27.

Rahi, however, won the women's team gold together with Shreya Gawande and Saee Godbole with a tally of 1713 points, beating Haryana and the Heena-led ONGC to silver and bronze respectively.

Gauri Sheoran

of Haryana clinched the junior women's title in the same segment, getting the better of teammate Muskan 31-27 in the final. Chinki shot 24 to settle for the bronze.

In the 50m pistol junior men's event, Anmol Jain of Haryana claimed the gold ahead of Arjun Singh Cheema.

Shubham Baliyan of Delhi won the bronze.

Arjun made it a hat-trick with the team silver. The Army team led by Jitu Rai, Gurpal Singh and Jai Singh won the gold.

The Navy team won the bronze.