India, Feb. 13 -- Continuing her hot streak, Haryana's teenage pistol shooter Suruchi Phogat beat a high-quality field that included double Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker to win the 10m air pistol selection trials at the Karni Singh Range on Thursday.

Suruchi topped the qualification round with a score of 586. Asian Games champion Palak was second with 584 and Manu qualified at third place (581).

The 18-year-old Haryana girl, then, took things up a notch in the 24-shot final scoring a brilliant 246.5 to take the first place. Her score was just 0.5 below the existing world mark. Chandigarh's Sainyam who came second was far off (241.5) Suruchi. Manu, who was competing in her first event since Paris Olympics, finished third.

Suruchi has be...