Gagan Narang's nightmarish Olympic campaign ended with another failure as he, along with debutante Sanjeev Rajput, failed to qualify for the finals of the 50m Rifle 3 position event of the Shooting competition. Despite his personal best score of 1168, the Hyderabad based shooter finished 13th in the field of 49 shooters while his compatriot Sanjeev creditable 1162 and ended 26th. The event was won by Ukraine's Jury Sukhorukov who shot 1272.5 (1173, 99.5).
Ms Usha may soon discover that winning four gold medals at the Asian Games and qualifying for the Los Angeles Olympics is a walk in the park compared with the challenges of stabilising governance at the IOA, observes Kanika Datta.
India's schedule for Thursday, the sixth day of competition at the Asian Games, in Incheon.
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.
All eyes will be on the shooting range, with Indians in three finals.
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.
India ended the Badge competition, ahead of the Commonwealth Games, with 15 medals -- five gold, seven silver and three bronze.
Gagan Narang, P T Raghunath and Navanath Fartade won the bronze in the 10m air rifle team event at the Asian Games.
Gagan Narang claimed the silver medal in men's 10 metre air rifle event at Munich Open Shooting Championship.
The 22-year-old shooter jumped 18 places to take the top ranking in the in the men's 10m air rifle category.
Having failed at the World Cup in Guangzhou, he hopes to clinch a place at the event in Brazil later this month.
Gagan Narang claimed the gold medal in the 10m air rifle event and earned a spot in the 2008 Beijing Olympics
Having proved his mettle in the 50m rifle three position, Gagan Narang has set his eyes on Olympic quota
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.
Gagan Narang had to settle for a silver medal in the men's 50m rifle prone event at the Asian Shooting Championships in Kuwait on Monday.
Jaspal Rana bettered the world record score to win the centrefire pistol gold on the opening day of the Australia Cup.
The ace shooter scored 598 out of 600 in the second trial of the 10m Air Rifle event.
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.
Teenage prodigies Anish Bhanwala, Manu Bhaker and Elavenil Valarivan will carry India's medal hopes in shooting at the Asian Games, beginning in
Gagan Narang and Samaresh Jung earned India two more gold medals at the Commonwealth Shooting Championships in Melbourne.
PM Modi immediately took to Twitter to congratulate the athlete.
Gagan Narang was tied 5th with Jozef Gonci of Slovakia after both shot an identical score of 697.7
Shooter Gagan Narang, who failed to qualify for the Olympics final, will aim for a better show in the days ahead.
The ace shooter qualified for the men's 50m rifle prone event at the 2008 Olympic Games.
Sanjeev Rajput was the highest placed Indian at the 13th position in the ISSF World Cup.
The Indian marksmen finished first in the men's air rifle and free pistol events respectively at the Australia Cup.
World champion Olga Dovogun recorded the magical score to win the women's 50m sport rifle prone gold at the Afro Asian Games.
India's leading marksmen Gagan Narang and Chain Singh failed to live up to expectations and were eliminated in the final of the 50 metres rifle prone event at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday.
Rifle shooters Gagan Narang and Chain Singh failed to progress to the finals of the men's rifle 3-position to crash out of the competition and end India's shooting campaign at the Rio Olympic Games on Sunday.
Six athletes from the track and field, shooting and weightlifting disciplines were on Wednesday inducted into the Target Olympic Podium Scheme, with the Sports Ministry including discus thrower Seema Punia and leaving out seasoned shooter Gagan Narang.
The Indian contingent's schedule at the Rio Olympics for Monday.
Unlike some of India's top pistol shooters, Gagan Narang is not 'deeply saddened' but ready to embrace change in Olympic events.
Check out India's schedule on Day 7 of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, on Friday.
National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) President Raninder Singh took upon himself the blame for the shooters' dismal outing at the Rio Olympics, saying it was a mistake on his part to allow the athletes to train with personal coaches.
India's report card on the seventh day of the 2016 Olympics.
Jitu Rai, the world number one in men's 50m pistol, shot a 555 in his elimination round to sail through to the qualification round of the event, to be contested on Thursday, along with the finals, on day four of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup (Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun) being played in Rio De Janerio's Olympic Shooting Centre.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, on Saturday, felicitated 2018 Commonwealth Games medallists Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu among others at Pragathi Bhavan.
