Indian shooters Prakash Nanjappa, Amanpreet Singh and Jitu Rai made a clean sweep in the 50m pistol event at the Commonwealth Shooting Championships
Olympic-bound Rahi Sarnobat displayed sensational form to clinch the women's 25m pistol gold medal at the ISSF Shooting World Cup in Osijek on Monday but teen sensation Manu Bhaker ended seventh in the same event.
Sindhu joins senior country-mate Anish Bhanwala in securing a Paris berth in the 25m rapid fire.
Simone Biles won the vault final on Saturday to clinch her third gold medal of the Paris Games, dominating the competition with her signature Biles II vault to beat Brazilian silver medallist Rebeca Andrade with American Jade Carey taking bronze.
Jaspal Rana questions Sports Ministry, NRAI for ignoring Manu's credentials for Khel Ratna
At 22, Manu Bhaker has already become one of India's greatest athletes by winning two medals in the same Olympics.
After being deprived of a gold medal by Border Security Force's Amit Kumar Pilaniya in the 10m air pistol event three days ago, Samaresh Jung was bang on target today as he won the 25m centre fire pistol title in the Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting Championships.
Sporting icons -- PV Sindhu and MC Mary Kom -- will be the star attractions among the Indians on Day 6 of the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday.
Sports minister Mansukh Mandaviya called the shooting World Cup final, which commenced in New Delhi on Monday, a celebration of excellence and added that the country felt honoured to welcome the best in the business.
Manu Bhaker and Jaspal Rana are chalk and cheese when it comes to their individual personalities
Bhanwala dedicated the medal to his personal coach Harpreet Singh.
This is Rahi's first gold medal at the Asian Games and her second overall at the Games.
Narmada Nithin Raju claimed the gold medal in the women's 10m air rifle with a new national record score of 254.4.
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India topped the medals tally ahead of hosts China (2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze), who won five medals in total.
Paralympic medallist Singhraj Adhana won two gold medals on the final day as India produced their best-ever performance at the Para Shooting World Cup, finishing with 10 medals in Munich.
Pistol shooters Vijay Kumar and Gurpreet Singh opened the gold medal trail for India by winning the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (pairs) event on the fourth day of competitions in the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi on Thursday.
Young Indian shooter Nischal won the silver medal in the women's 50 metre Rifle 3 Positions at the ISSF World Cup, in Rio De Janeiro, on Monday. It was India's second medal on the concluding day of the tournament.
India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, on Tuesday, September 26.
Dangi and Tomar made it an India 1-2 in qualifications early in the morning with scores of 588 and 583 from the 60-shot round.
Olympian Manu Bhaker displayed complete dominance in 10m air pistol Olympic Selection Trials (OST), shooting a superb score to overcome the challenge of Asian Games medallist Esha Singh in Bhopal on Friday.
India won three gold and one bronze medal from the Commonwealth Youth Games on Wednesday. After Deepika Patel, in the 10m Air Pistol (women), and Lakshya Bansal, in the 25m Pistol (men), bagged gold medals, Asher Noria added the third gold from the men's double trap event, while Rushad Damania won the bronze in the men's 50m Rifle 3 Position.
The country has so far won five gold and four bronze medals, moving back up to second position on the medal tally behind China, who leads with 24 podium finishes, 13 of them being gold.
'To win the Olympic gold medal, I have been really working really hard for the past five years now, and it has always been my dream.'
Maheshwari Chauhan and Raiza Dhillon ended in 14th and 23rd place respectively in the qualification of the women's skeet competition at the Paris Olympics.
The IOA was supposed to provide details of the country's vaccinated athletes to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by May 27 and had asked the national federations to share the information.
Greek shooter Anna Korakaki took the gold medal in the women's 25 metre pistol event on Tuesday, two days after she won a bronze and became the first woman to win a medal in shooting for Greece.
India's squash ace Dipika Pallikal will be in action against the formidable Nicol David in the semi-final round on Monday, the third day of the Asian Games.
India's schedule on Day 4 of the Asian Games on Wednesday, September 27.
The 20-year-old Rhythm, who hails from Haryana and was a part of the team that won the 25m sports pistol gold at the Hangzhou Asian Games last year along with Esha and Manu Bhaker, shot 28 in the final to settle for bronze.
Ace shooter Sanjeev Rajput clinched the silver medal in the men's 50-metre rifle 3 position event at the ISSF World Cup in Baku, Ajerbaijan, on Tuesday. The Indian marksman scored 456.9 to win the silver medal in the last World Cup before the Rio Olympic Games.
The more experienced Heena Sidhu suffered a similar fate, as she was placed 25th with 571.
One of India's strongest Olympic medal hopes, ace shooter Manu Bhaker feels preparations 'cannot get better' than the ongoing training-cum-competition tour of Croatia as she works on her consistency ahead of the Tokyo Games.
Ronak Pandit has been the force behind the gold winner.
Jitu Rai pipped three-time Olympic champion Jongoh Jin of Korea to clinch the silver medal at the ISSF Shooting World Cup, in Baku, on Saturday.
Elavenil Valarivan and Anish Bhanwala, two of India's finest young shooters, were on Friday named in a 34-member core group for the Tokyo Olympics. The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) released the list of shooters who will be training separately for the quadrennial sporting extravaganza, scheduled to be held next summer after the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the Games back by a year.
Heena Sidhu gave India its third gold medal in shooting at the ongoing Commonwealth Games, leaving a host of seasoned campaigners in the shade in the women's 25 metres pistol event on Tuesday.
Indian pistol ace Manu Bhaker says she will continue to shoot in three events, including the 25m, despite enduring a hat-trick of heartbreaks in her Olympics campaign in Tokyo.
Images from Day 2 of the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games.
Shooter Vijay Kumar had a stuttering start to his Olympic campaign, failing to qualify for the men's 10m Air Pistol final after finishing a lowly 31st, on Saturday. Vijay tallied 570 after a sequence of 94, 95, 94, 97, 97, 93 at the Royal Artillery Barracks, where 44 shooters competed for the top eight places.
