Gujarat’s Pruthviraj Ayachi equals the score of Olympic Gold Medalist to win Championship
Gujarat based Pruthviraj Ayachi, won the gold medal in the finals of junior men’s 50M Rifle Prone event at the National Shooting Championship in Pune. A 16-year-old shooter shot 209.5 in the finals, equaling the score of the Olympic champion H Junghaenel of Germany who shot the same score by
virtue of which he won the gold medal in the men’s 50m Rifle Prone event at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Ayachi also surpassed the score of Sushil Ghaley, who won the senior men’s 50m Rifle Prone, shot 207.5. He also broke the record scored by an Indian shooter Rakesh Manpat who had set a national record by shooting 207.9 in the 2013 nationals.
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