Top guns for National shooting

NEW DELHI: Olympic medalists Abhinav Bindra, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Vijay Kumar and Gagan Narang besides a host of top shooters will take part in the 56th National Shooting Championship, beginning at the Dr Karni Singh shooting range in the Capital on Wednesday.
The competition, which will continue till December 30, will see a record-number of 2300 shooters from 41 affiliated state rifle associations and units fight it out for top honours, the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) said in a release on Tuesday.
The numbers included 267 shooters who have been given wild card entries. Other top shooters who have confirmed their participation included Manavjit Singh, Ronjan Sodhi, Joydeep Karmakar, Sanjeev Rajput, Anjali Bhagwat, Suma Shirur and Heena Sidhu.