Ganemat Sekhon and Anantjeet Singh Naruka, arguably India's number one women's and men's skeet shooters on Wednesday, added another feather to their cap, winning a maiden individual senior national title at New Delhi's Dr Karni Singh Shooting range
Anish shot 27 in the final on Friday evening, finishing behind world championship bronze medallist German Peter Florian who took gold with 35 hits, and reigning world champion and double Olympic medallist Li Yuehong of China, who was second with 33 hits after eight series of five rapid-fi
Daughter of former handball player Sreeram Gonella, Niharika is the second of the four sisters, and took up the sport in 2014. She has since then won two silver medals at overseas invitational tournaments, and also boasts of medals at Youth Worlds, besides the domestic medals.
Indian shooter Manu Bhaker secured a Paris 2024 Olympic quota for India after she finished fifth in the women's 25m pistol event at the Asian Shooting Championships 2023 in Changwon.
Riding on the success of the Hangzhou Asian Games, Indian tennis star Rutuja Bhosale is now aiming to secure 2024 Paris Olympics quota and break into top-200 to ensure more Grand Slam presence in her career.
The 33-member squad came back from Hangzhou, China, with a historic best-ever haul of 22 medals, including seven gold from the continental multi-sport extravaganza.
The ISSF World Championship in 2023 serves as a qualifying event for the Olympics in Paris in 2024. The best four finishers (one from each country) in each of the 12 Olympic individual shooting events received a seat on their national teams, giving a total of 48 Olympic quotas up for grabs.
Earlier during the qualifying event, Akhil had secured a sixth-place finish with a score of 585 and made it to the eight-man final. Olympian Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar secured a 13th-place finish in the qualifying round with 583 points while Niraj secured a 40th-position finish with 577 poi
The Indian, who had earlier in the day topped qualifying with a sizzling 634.5, shot 229.8 in the 24-shot eight-woman final to bow in third place at the end of 22-shots. China won gold and silver with Han Jiayu finishing with 251.4 and Wang Zhilin who ended with 250.2. 15-year-old Tilottama