Dola, Chekrovolu, Punya qualify for FITA Olympic round

Vijayawada, Jan 28 (UNI) Dola Banerjee of Indian Railways, Chekrovolu Swuro of Nagaland and Punya Probha of Uttar Pradesh today qualified for the FITA Olympic round in women's section of the 27th Cherukuri Volga Memorial Senior National Championship on at Dr NTR University of Health Sciences here.

In the recurve segment matches, Banerjee secured 1307 points out of 1440 points, while Swuro scored 1301 points and Punya Probha 1277 points.

In men's section, SSCB's Gurucharan Besra came first scoring 1315 out of 1440 points, Rahul Banerjee came second with 1314 points and Robin Hansda third scoring 1307.

In the compound segment matches held in men's section, Paltan Hansoa of Jharkand came first by scoring 1347 points out of 1440 points to move into the recurve FITA Olympic round.

Sonam Bhutia of Meghalaya and Avdesh Raghu of ITBP came second and third respectively and qualified for the recurve FITA Olympic round securing 1339 and 1338 points.

Similarly in the women's compound segment matches, Jhano Hansda of Jharkand came first, securing 1359 points out of 1440.

Sakro Besra of Indian Railways and Renu Munda of Haryana scored 1352 and 1332 points respectively, securing a berth in the recurve FITA Olympic round.

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