New Delhi/Bhopal, Dec. 16 -- World Championship silver medallist Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar delivered a landmark performance at the 68th National Shooting Championship Competitions on Tuesday, firing a world record score of 470.5, 1.6 more than the current world record, to clinch gold in the men's 50m rifle 3 positions final at the Madhya Pradesh State Shooting Range in Bhopal. In simultaneous shotgun action at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi, Gurjoat Singh delivered a composed display to win the skeet men's gold with 55 hits, narrowly defeating nine-time national champion Mairaj Ahmad Khan, who finished second with 54 hits.
Aishwary was clinical from the start, equalling his own national record of 597, which he had first ...