Dhanush Srikanth

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2019

Scores better than WR holders in regular category

Tushar Dutt, June 19, 2019: The Times of India

Dhanush Srikanth
From: Tushar Dutt, June 19, 2019: The Times of India

Hearing impaired shooter scores better than WR holders in regular category

Pune:

When Dhanush Srikanth, 16, clinched gold in the 10m air rifle event of the U-21 category at the Khelo India Games, he knew he has greater heights to scale.

He became the first shooter with hearing impairment to win a national-level medal in regular category as he finished on top in the U-21 category of 10m air rifle.

This wasn’t it.

Dhanush won gold with a score that is better than the current senior and junior world records (finals). The shooter, who couldn’t hear since birth, scored 252.5 in the junior (U-21) final of the Kumar Surendra Singh memorial shooting tournament at the Dr Karni Singh shooting range on Tuesday. Since the tournament is not a world event or a continental meet, the score will not be considered a record. He shot better than the senior world record of 251.2 by Alexander Dryagin of Russia and junior record of 252.2 by China’s Yuefeng Wang. Dhanush qualified for three finals on Tuesday — senior, junior and youth (U-18) — and after finishing 7th in the senior final, he went on to clinch the U-21 gold and silver in U-18 category. The three finals were held back-to-back. In the U-21 final, Dhanush didn’t shoot a single shot below 10.2 in the 24-shot final. He defeated Asian championships bronze medallist Aishwarya Pratap Singh, who shot 251.9, also better than the senior WR. Dhanush trains at London Olympics bronze medallist Gagan Narang’s academy Gun For Glory and is part of their ambitious programme, Project Leap.

“He is an exceptional talent. It isn’t easy to shoot such high scores consistently. But he is getting used to handling the pressure and it is helping him score well. We have been working hard on him and it is motivating to see such results from a 16-year-old,” Dhanush’s mentor Narang told TOI.

His coach Neha Chavan said the fatigue of shooting three finals didn’t let them take a note of the final score. “Since he shot back to back finals, we all were so tired to even celebrate the gold and silver,” Neha said.