Indian Railways bags 2nd position at the USIC Int’l Shooting Championship held in Poland
By (FINN) Frontier India News Network | September 2nd, 2010 | Category: Sports | No Comments »
Indian Railways team stood 2nd in the prestigious 14th USIC (Union of International Railways) International Shooting Championship held in Krakow (Poland) from 23rd to 27th August, 2010. Indian Railways stood 5th in last USIC championship held at Zurich in Switzerland in 2006. Indian Railways team and players are lead partner in the forthcoming Commonwealth Games-2010.
The Indian Railways team bagged 8345 points out of 9000 and stood 2nd. France was ahead by just 7 points. Germany was third with 20 points less.
There were 12 players, a coach and a Manager along with Chef-de-Mission.
The Indian Railway team stood 1st and obtained Team Gold in 3 events namely Air Rifle 10M, Air Pistol 10M and .22 Rifle 3-Position 50M. In the remaining other two events, namely, .22 Pistol 25M and .22 Rifle Prone 50M, Indian Railways team ranked 8th.
In the individual category, two Indian Railway players ranked 1st namely, Anuja Jung in Air Rifle and Vishwajeet Shinde in Rifle 3-Position. Two Indian Railway players stood 3rd namely, Ashok Karande in Air Rifle and Yogesh Sudake in Air Pistol.