Tejaswini Sawant meets Thackeray
August 12th, 2010
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Mumbai, Aug 12 (PTI) Tejaswini Sawant, who became the first Indian woman shooter to clinch a gold medal at the World Championships, met Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray here today. Sawant, accompanied by Kolhapur Sena “sampark pramukh” Arun Dudhwalkar met the party chief at his suburban residence in Bandra.
Maharashtra cabinet yesterday congratulated Tejaswini Sawant for her feat at the World Championships in Munich, Germany. Tejaswini shot a world-record equalling score of 597 (100,100,100,99,99,99) in the 50m Rifle Prone event to finish on top.
She equalled the 1998 record set by Marina Bobkova of Russia.
