Sidhu obtained a Paris 2024 Olympic quota for India in men's 25m rapid-fire pistol after entering the final at the Asian Shooting Championships 2024 meet in Jakarta, Indonesia on Saturday.
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
India have now picked up 30 medals from the continental event, including eight gold. Anish Bhanwala's quota was the fifth India have secured in Changwon.
Indian shooter Vijayveer Sidhu who was part of the trio that clinched India's first medal in the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol felt proud after getting felicitated on Thursday.
Indian shooter Vijayveer Sidhu could not finish among medal winners in the 25m rapid-fire pistol men's final shooting event at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Monday and stood at the fourth position at the end of the competition
Earlier, shooter Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar secured a bronze medal in the men's 10 m air rifle individual final at the ongoing Asian Games in Hangzhou on Monday.
Meet Hayer further congratulated the three shooters from Punjab who had won medals in the Junior Shooting World Cup held in Germany recently. Amanpreet Singh won the Gold Medal in sports pistol, Simranpreet Kaur Brar bagged the Gold Medal in the women's sports pistol team and Rajkanwar Sandh
Bhavesh Shekhawat, who was second to Anish Bhanwala in the T5 trial earlier in the week, did not disappoint on Tuesday, scoring 33-hits in the final to upstage Army shooter Gurmeet who ended with 31-hits. In the women's air rifle final, Ramita was "in the zone", posting a wire-to-wire victor
Manini shot 415.6 in the final, which was won by Briton Seonaid McIntosh who finished with 467.0. China's double Olympic medallist Li Yuehong won the other final of the concluding day, the men's 25m rapid-fire pistol (RFP), helping his country top the medal tally with four gold, one silver a
In the T4 gold medal match, Pannkaj representing the Railways overcame local favourite Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar 16-12 to come out on top. Also winning on the day was Mehuli Ghosh, now representing the ONGC, who won the women's 10m air rifle T4 trials with a 17-9 result over her former sta
Divyansh Singh Panwar was in sensational shooting form in Bhopal, logging a score of 636.3 in the men's 10m air rifle T4 qualification round. Punjab's Sift Kaur Samra, who won her first-ever ISSF medal. In the men's 25m rapid fire pistol (rfp), India international Vijayveer Sidhu won 30 poin