The shooters bagged three gold and one silver medal in five events that took India's tally to four gold and three silver after two days.
The ace shooter shot an aggregate of 698.7 in the men's Air Rifle event at the Munich Air Gun Shooting Championships.
Abhinav Bindra climbed 24 rungs to second position in the 10m Air Rifle rankings while Olympic silver medallist Lt Col Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore is fifth in the Double Trap event.
Indian sportspersons will be in action in the following events at 28th Olympic Games in Athens on Monday.
Commonwealth Games gold medalist and ace marksman Samresh Jung won gold while Olympic medallist Vijay Kumar settled for a bronze in 25 meter standard pistol event at the 57th National Shooting Championship at Dr Karni Singh Ranges in New Delhi on Saturday.
'I will put in my hundred percent in the Olympics,' promises Apurvi Chandela who took to shooting after watching Abhinav Bindra win gold in the Beijing Olympics.
Gagan Narang grabbed the spotlight on Friday, winning the men's 50m Rifle 3-position event, for his his fourth gold medal of the Games.
Even as the shooters continued to dominate the ranges, India's men's table tennis team shocked fancied Singapore to win the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.
Tejaswini Sawant and Avneet Kaur Sidhu scored 500.6 points and 500.2 respectively to equal the Commonwealth Games' record.
India's shooters struck it rich at the Commonwealth Games on Friday morning, winning three gold medals and a silver.
They may have been hitting the bulls eyes often in recent years but Indian shooters will still have their task cut out when they take to the range for the 51st World Championships starting in Granada, Spain on Monday, eyeing as many Olympic quotas as possible.
The shooting ace will miss the Doha Asian Games due to a back injury.
Abhinav Bindra, who is suffering from chronic back pain, has been flown to Munich to undergo treatment.
Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal in the men's 10 m air rifle event at World shooting championships.
The Indian shooters fired a blank at the Rio 2016 Olympics with Abhinav Bindra missing the medal by a whisker but the 2008 Beijing Olympic champion said he has high hopes for Tokyo.
President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the country in congratulating paddler Bhavinaben Patel for winning a historic silver medal, India's first, in the ongoing Paralympic Games in Tokyo on Sunday.
Abhinav Bindra had to settle for silver in the men's 50m rifle 3 positions shooting event at the 18th Commonwealth Games.
Earlier, Samresh Jung won the gold medal in men's 50-metre Pistol individual event.
Bindra, who won a gold medal in 10m Air Rifle event in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, was speaking at a session at the India Today Conclave 2017 in Mumbai.
Jaspal Rana bettered the world record score to win the centrefire pistol gold on the opening day of the Australia Cup.
The ace Indian marksman won the Air Rifle event at the Intershoot Den Haag-2005 Championship.
The ace shooter scored 598 out of 600 in the second trial of the 10m Air Rifle event.
The CAB has promised to also work out a mechanism for refund of tickets sold offline once its offices reopen on Tuesday.
Neeraj Chopra's soaring javelin did not just earn India their first Olympic gold in athletics on Saturday, it also meant that the contingent will return from Tokyo with seven medals, their biggest Games haul ever.
India's junior shooting coach Jaspal Rana advised his wards, urging them to follow in the footsteps of Abhinav Bindra and not take things for granted.
The nation of 1.3 billion people was glued to television sets as early as 5am, following the fortunes of Aditi Ashok, who after three days, was lying second and in line for an unprecedented medal in golf at the Olympics.
According to sources at CAB, the security clearance did not come a day ahead of the historic match between India and Bangladesh in Kolkata.
Ace shooter Abhinav Bindra scored 1161 in Rifle 3 position event in the ISSF World Cup in Fort Benning, USA.
Gagan Narang and Samaresh Jung earned India two more gold medals at the Commonwealth Shooting Championships in Melbourne.
Abhinav Shaw became the youngest gld medallist at the Khelo India Youth Games when he teamed up with Mehuli Ghosh to help West Bengal win the 10m air-rifle mixed team event.
India earned five Olympic quota places and 10 gold medals in the 10th Asian Shooting Championships.
Ace marksman Gagan Narang shot bronze medal in the men's 10m Air Rifle in the ISSF World Cup in Beijing even though compatriots Abhinav Bindra and PT Raghunath failed to make the finals of the event. Gagan fired 99, 99, 99, 100, 100, 100 and 100 to total 597 that earned him a ticket in the final of the event.
In a disappointing year for Indian shooters, Double Trap shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore stood out, booking an Olympic berth.
The development comes a day after the world body de-listed the Archery Association of India for violating the constitution by unanimously electing two parallel bodies in Chandigarh and New Delhi.
PM Modi, Olympian Abhinav Bindra lead country in congratulating Mirabai Chanu on winning Olympic silver on Saturday.
Sanjeev Rajput was the highest placed Indian at the 13th position in the ISSF World Cup.
A round-up of Indian athletes' performances on Day 4 of the Asian Games, in Incheon, on Tuesday.
The Indian marksmen finished first in the men's air rifle and free pistol events respectively at the Australia Cup.
The Indian ace won the gold medal in the men's 10m air rifle at the International Air Rifle and Pistol Shooting Championships.
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