SPO-KHELO-SHOOTING

Khelo shooting: Manavaditya and Keer claim trap golds

Pune, Jan 12 (PTI)Rajasthan's Manavaditya Singh

Rathore Saturday pulled himself together after an uncertain

start and blazed to the men's under-21 trap shooting gold

medal at the Khelo India Youth Games here.

If the son of 2004 Olympic Games double trap silver

medallist and Union Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore was

on top in the men's final, it was a fisherman's daughter,

Manish Keer (Madhya Pradesh), who claimed the women's under-21

trap gold, a media release issued here said.

Manisha, a World Junior Championship silver medallist

trained by Olympian Mansher Singh, ran out a 38-35 winner over

Delhi's Kirti Gupta.

While Manavaditya found his rhythm, 2018 Asian Games

silver medallist Lakshya Sheoran lost his and finished in

fourth place.

Manavaditya, aged 19, shot down only five of the first

10 targets in the high-pressure final but bounced back by

shooting nine of the next 10 to be in a comfortable third spot

with five shots left before the first of the six finalists

would be eliminated.

Manavaditya admitted that he felt pressure in the

final and also throughout the competition.

"Pressure is very important as it makes you stay

alert. You just have to stop yourself from over thinking," the

young shooter was quoted as saying in the release.

The results (finals): Men's under-21 Trap:1.

Manavaditya Singh Rathore (Rajasthan) 39; 2. Bhowneesh

Mendiratta (Haryana) 34; 3. Shardul Vihan (Uttar Pradesh) 26.

Women's under-21 Trap:1. Manish Keer (Madhya Pradesh)

38; 2. Kirti Gupta (Delhi) 35; 3. Aadya Tripathi (Delhi) 25.

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