New Delhi: Promising shooters Harveen Srao and Sweta Chowdhary's hopes of competing in next year's Olympic Games came down crashing as they failed to qualify for the finals of women's pistol event at the Asian Championships in Kuwait today.

Shweta missed the finals on the last card basis after she shot 383 out of 400 but was ranked as 10th due to her low last card while Harveen and Nausheen Fathima were further behind with scores of 377 and 363 respectively to leave India with no representation in the event at Olympics.

It was a similar story in women's 50m rifle 3 position event as no Indian could make the finals with Anjali Bhagwat, who is already a quota place holder in the event, shooting 570/600 while Meena Kumari and Tejswinin Sawant returned figures of 568 and 566 respectively.

Raj Kumari, who was shooting for Minimum quota Score (MQS) shot 576.

In the Rapid Fire Pistol event for men, Pemba Tamang shot 290/300, Vijay Kumar 284 and Harpreet Singh 274 at the half way stage. The remaining rounds will be shot tomorrow to decide the quota place .

Junior shooters, however, continued to bring laurels for the country by bagging one silver and two bronze medals in various events today.

Source : PTI