Shooting range for CWG is ready

The state-of-the-art new shooting range constructed for the Commonwealth Games at Kadarpur will be inaugurated on Saturday.

The range in Haryana will host the full bore shooting competition in the Games starting on October 3.

Built within the Central Reserve Police Force campus, the range has a full bore shooting range and 25m, 50m baffle ranges.

The Haryana government has already started construction of road between IFFCO Chowk and Kadarpur CRPF camp via Gurgaon Sector 56 and 61.

Kumari, Goswami fail to qualify for finals in shooting WC

India's Meena Kumari and Lajja Goswami finished 10th and 11th respectively after failing to qualify for the final round in 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women in the ISSF World Cup on Thursday.

Kumari shot a series of 97, 98 in prone, 93, 96 in standing and 96, 96 in kneeling for an aggregate of 576 to miss out of the final round.

Goswami had same totals with Kumari in prone 195 (100+ 95) and standing 189 (96+93) but was a point less in kneeling 191 (96+95). She had 3 positions aggregate of 575.

India had so far won three silver in the competition.

Sanjeev Rajput, Joydeep Karmakar and Omkar Singh had bagged a silver each in men's air rifle, men's 50m Rifle Prone and men's 10m Rifle Prone events.