Indian shooter Ganemat Sekhon scored 120 in the women’s skeet qualifying round of the ISSF World Cup Shotgun Lonato 2023 to claim a new national record on Wednesday.
India's number one woman Skeet shooter Ganemat Sekhon, made a good start at the year's sixth International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun stage in Lonato, Italy, missing two targets in the first two qualifying rounds to effectively lie 14th with three more rounds remainin
The event will also serve as a qualifier for the Paris 2024 Olympics. The Lonato leg, held at the Trap Concaverde Shooting Range, will be the sixth shotgun competition of the ISSF 2023 calendar.
The all-events World Championships in Baku will have as many as 48 Paris 2024 Olympics quota places up for grabs and Shooters living their Olympic dreams, will first have to ensure they get a spot on the team, to grab one of those quotas for the country. Following the Asian Games in Septembe
India finished on top of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Junior in Suhl, Germany, with an overhaul haul of 15 medals, including six gold, six silver and three bronze medals.
Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Ganemat Sekhon finished sixth in the Mixed Team Skeet competition at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun, in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Darshna Rathore won a bronze medal at an International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup stage. Ganemat Sekhon won a silver medal at the event as well. This was the first time that two senior individual medals in the women's category were won by India.
Following her win Darhsna Rath
Darshna Rathore was the best Indian on show as teammate Ganemat Sekhon shot 69 to be placed ninth among contenders currently and Maheshwari Chauhan was lying further back, having shot 67
The tournament in Almaty is the penultimate stage of the ISSF World Cup for shotgun shooters. The final stage will take place in Lonato, Italy, before the ISSF World Championships in Doha in November.