New Delhi, Jan. 2 -- Haryana's Ameerah Arshad delivered a composed performance under pressure to clinch the gold medal in a dramatic 10m Air Rifle Women final at the 68th National Shooting Championship Competitions (Rifle), held at the Madhya Pradesh State Shooting Academy in Bhopal on Friday.

She edged past Railways' Rajshree Anilkumar Sancheti by a razor-thin margin of 0.1 point. Later in the day, at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi, Zuhair Khan of Uttar Pradesh rose to the occasion to win the men's trap gold at the 68th NSCC (Shotgun) with 43 hits, as per a press release from the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI).

Ameerah finished the women's final with a score of 251.9, narrowly ahead of Sancheti, who settled...