Saurabh Chaudhary bags three gold medals in National shooting trials
Saurabh Chaudhary won both the Men's and Junior Men's 50M Pistol T4 trials, after clinching bronze in the Men's T3 event while maintaining gold in the Junior Men's T3 competition.
Saurabh Chaudhary won both the Men's and Junior Men's 50M Pistol T4 trials, after clinching bronze in the Men's T3 event while maintaining gold in the Junior Men's T3 competition.
The Meerut boy shot 586 to be tied with Chinese Bowen Zhang after qualification
Saurabh won gold at the 2018 Asian Games and has since won a number of individual and team honours at shooting World Cups.
Chaudhary and Abhishek Verma have already secured their quotas for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Her compatriot Elavenil Valarivan, however, narrowly missed out on a medal after finishing fourth behind China's Xu Hong.
This despite an equally impressive series of 10.0 10.7 10.2 and 10.1 by Switzerland's Solari Jason.
Sourabh will also get a gazetted officer's job, a state government spokesman said.
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