Sindhu joins senior country-mate Anish Bhanwala in securing a Paris berth in the 25m rapid fire.
Vijayveer Sidhu won India's fourth gold medal at the ISSF World Cup after he emerged victorious in the men's 25m rapid-fire pistol event in Buenos Aires.
Bhavesh Shekhawat leads the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol event after Stage 1 at the National Selection Trials T3, held at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Ranges.
Divyansh Singh Panwar and Khyati Chaudhary emerged victorious in the 10m Air Rifle events at the National Selection Trials, while Anish Bhanwala won the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol event.
Aishwary, who is a double Olympian, former junior world champion, and reigning Asian champion, has also won a silver in the World Championship last month.
Vijayveer Sidhu picked up his third gold medal of the ongoing ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany, combining with Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu and Adarsh Singh to clinch the men's 25m pistol event.
Eight Indian shooters, including double Olympic medalist Manu Bhaker, have secured their places in the season-ending ISSF World Cup Final scheduled to be held in Doha, Qatar, from December 4 to 9.
Following is India's schedule on Sunday, Day 9 of the Paris Olympics: (All timings in IST)
India's Vijayveer Sidhu and Tejaswani claimed the gold medal in the 25m rapid fire pistol mixed team event of the ISSF World Cup in New Delhi on Saturday.
The Indian shooting team finished second at the ISSF World Cup in Buenos Aires, winning eight medals including four gold, two silver, and two bronze.
Ace pistol shooter Manu Bhaker will lead a 35-member Indian team in the season-opening ISSF World Cups in April in South America.
Flag-bearers PV Sindhu and Sharath Kamal will lead the 78-strong Indian contingent, representing 12 disciplines, on a historic journey down the Seine River.
Double Olympic-medallist Manu Bhaker opted for a three-month rest following her exploits at the Paris Games.
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 Indian pair of Rhythm Sangwan and Vijayveer Sidhu clinched the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Mixed Team gold medal as the country's total haul soared to 23.
Anish posted 35 hits out of 40 in the final
On Sunday, the Women's 25m Pistol Team won a silver and the Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions (3P) team won a bronze, even as India ended their Paris 2024 Olympics quota quest at two from the championship. Their tally now stands at 12 gold, nine silver, and 13 bronze medals, as per a press release from the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI).
The initiative by SAI is part of ongoingefforts of the government to help young athletes balance their sporting career and academics.
After failing to pick up a medal on the final day, India finished their campaign at the Baku World Cup with four medals.
Narmada Nithin Raju claimed the gold medal in the women's 10m air rifle with a new national record score of 254.4.
Following is the schedule of Indian contingent on Day 7 of the Asian Games:
On Monday, it was the men's 3P team who first got India on board, going down 12-16 to Italy.
The national shooting federation NRAI chose current form over pedigree to pick the squad for the mega event and it will be hoping they hit the bullseye at the National Shooting Centre in Chateauroux.
The duo of Sheoran and Tomar combined with Swapnil Kusale to also win the team gold medal in the same event ahead of Chinese and South Korean teams.
Sarabjot also partnered Arjun Cheema and Vijayveer Sidhu to win the junior team gold.
India finished on top at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup in Suhl after Sift Kaur Samra and Surya Pratap Singh settled for a silver in the 50m rifle prone mixed team event
The Indian hockey team entered the Olympic semifinals for a second successive edition but Lakshya Sen's zealous push for a gold turned into a hunt for bronze on a bitter-sweet Sunday for India at the Paris Games.
Two-time Olympian and India's shining light in skeet shooting Mairaj Ahmad Khan won the country's and his first-ever individual gold in the event, shooting 37 hits out of a possible 40 in the final at the ISSF World Cup in Changwon, Korea.
In a year marred by disappointments, shooter Akhil Sheoran redeemed himself by winning the men's 50m rifle 3-positions bronze medal even as the other Indian participants failed to make a mark in the ISSF World Cup Final in New Delhi on Wednesday.
India also bagged three 2024 Paris Olympic quotas while they had won two Tokyo Games quota places from the Changwon worlds.
India will send 117 athletes to the Paris Olympics, starting July 26 in the French capital. This will be India's second-biggest contingent at an Olympic Games after 121 athletes went to Tokyo in 2021. A total of 47 female and 70 male athletes will be part of the Indian contingent at the Games.
India registered a no-medal day for the first time in the tournament. Even though Rhythm topped qualification with her 595, teammates Esha Singh and Manu shot 582 and 578 respectively to finish at 13th and 27th positions.
The Indian women's team comprising of Manu Bhaker, Rhythm Sangwan and Naamya Kapoor, dominated proceedings in the 25m pistol team event at the ISFF Junior World Shooting Championship in Lima, Peru, beating US 16-4 in the gold medal match.
India has also picked up one Paris 2024 Olympics quota place after Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil stunned a high-quality field on Friday, to become the 10 air rifle men's world champion.
At the brand new Trishul Shooting Range in Dehradun, Haryana's Asian Games bronze medallist shooter Ramita Jindal turned in a world class performance to top the qualification round in the women's 10m air rifle event.
In the other highlight of the day, all three Indians made it through their elimination relays in the Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions (3P) competition, which has four Paris 2024 Olympics quota places at stake.
Sift Kaur Samra gave ample proof of her immense potential, earning India its sixth Paris Olympic quota place.
Vijayveer Sidhu, 16, shot a gold in the 25m standard pistol event for junior men after combining with Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu and Adarsh Singh to claim the team gold on the last day of the ISSF World Championships.
It was also Patil's second senior world championship gold in his very first outing, having won the individual 10m air rifle event earlier.
Apart from archery, the Indians also bagged two medals in shooting.
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