India is all set to compete in the upcoming ISSF World Cup Junior 2023 which will be conducted in Suhl, Germany, from June 1 to June 6, 2023.
The ISSF World Championships 2022 Rifle/Pistol is scheduled to be held from October 12 to 25, 2022, at Cairo in Egypt.
Tokyo Olympian Elavenil Valarivan got past Karnataka’s Tilottama Sen to seal the gold in the women’s 10m air rifle event at the National Games 2022.
Junior World champion and Tokyo Olympian in rifle 3 Positions, Aishwary Pratap Singh shot 631.7 to reach the final with a second-place finish in the qualifications.
India has produced some great shooters like Abhinav Bindra, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Gagan Narang, and Vijay Kumar who have brought laurels to the nation at the Olympic Games.
Indian shooter Vijay Kumar’s silver medal at the 2012 London Games was India’s first-ever Olympic medal in a pistol event.