KARACHI, Jan 6: Nadia Saeed of Navy and Farhat Nasreen of Army clinched gold medals in prone rifle and sports pistol respectively in the National shooting championship at Naval Range on Tuesday.

Nadia claimed the prone rifle gold scoring 578 out of 600 points with Ms Urooj Fatima taking the silver and Nazish Khan bagging the bronze. Army women dominated the sports pistol scooping the gold and silver medals. Farhat captured gold with 638.7/709, Azra Nazeer grabbed silver and Shagufta Zulfiqar from Navy finished third for a bronze.

Centre-fire pistol and skeet events will be contested on Wednesday with a close competition expected between Sydney Olympian Khurram Inam, his closest rival Ahmed Sultan both from Sindh with Navy's S.A.Noor and Sikander from Army.

Khurram, a SAF shooting record holder, looked a bit out of practice but is capable of doing well on his day. Similarly, Ahmed on the evidence of recent form can produce good score.

S. A. Noor, who won the trap gold is also in fray for gold in skeet event with Sikander. In centre-fire pistol event, it will be direct confrontation between Navy and Army shooters.

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