The Olympic silver medallist scored 191.0 points, his best since 2002, at the National Shooting Championships.
Samresh Jung won gold in the 10 m Air pistol event in Men's category of the 49th National Shooting Championship
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.
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.
The Olympic silver medallist helped India claim the double trap team title for the third time in the Asian Clay Shooting Championships.
Young Indian shooter Asher Noria fired his way to a gold medal for the second successive time at the International Junior Shooting Competition in Suhl, Germany.
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.
Saurbah Chaudhary would dream of excelling in the Olympic sport one day.
Gurpreet Singh and Shweta Chaudhary added a couple of more gold medals as Indian shooters swept the final day of the Commonwealth Shooting Championships to finish on top of the tally with a whopping 49 medals at the Karni Singh Range in New Delhi, on Saturday. India ended the event with 23 gold, 17 silver and 9 bronze medals and after adding the consolation badges given to the third shooter in a team event, the hosts' tally swelled to 74.
Navy marksman Harpreet Singh pipped army's Vijay Kumar 28-27 to bag gold medal in the men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol event at the 55th National Shooting Championships at the Balewadi Ranges, in Pune, on Thursday.
The Commonwealth Games gold medallist finished a disappointing 17th in the men's 10m air pistol at the 10th Asian Shooting Championships.
Many matches in big tournaments have seen the script being changed because of a missed penalty. Rediff.com brings to you six instances in recent times when a penalty miss proved decisive.
High on confidence after bagging gold in the Asian Clay Shooting Championship, Olympian Manavjit Singh Sandhu is now aiming to better his 2006 Commonwealth Games bronze, when Delhi hosts the quadrennial event next year.
Ace marksman Gagan Narang added the 50m rifle prone position gold to the one he won earlier in the 10m event, while Olympic quota earner Annu Raj Singh grabbed the air pistol crown in the Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting Championships.
He beat World champion Al-Mudhaf Khaled of Kuwait in a tie-shoot in the Asian Clay Shooting.
India's Shubhankar Sharma produced the best-ever result by an Indian at golf's oldest Major, the Open Championships, as he finished tied-eighth in Hoylake on Sunday.
Top pistol shooter Ankait Tomar was removed from the Indian contingent bound for the ISSF World Championships in Baku a week before its departure because of a "minor scuffle with a fellow shooter", said his father on Sunday.
Unlike some of India's top pistol shooters, Gagan Narang is not 'deeply saddened' but ready to embrace change in Olympic events.
Two-time Olympic medalist P V Sindhu and World Athletics Championship bronze medalist Anju Bobby George visited the Ahmedabad Military and Rifle Training Association range in Khanpur/
Vikram Bhatnagar gave a dazzling display of marksmanship to emerge winner in the Double Trap event in the National Shooting championship, at the Jagatpura range, in Jaipur on Thursday. The day also belonged to young Ajay Mittal, who won the junior event with a new national record of 138, while Army girl Varsha Tomar pocketed the women's title.
Tokyo Paralympics silver medallist IAS officer Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj bettered his bronze from the last edition by winning gold in the SL4 final. Sukant Kadam took home the bronze in the same event.
Favourites India continued to dominate and secured six of the eight gold medals on offer on the fourth day of the South Asian Shooting championships in Bangladesh to stay atop the medals tally with figures of 20-10-5.
Singh shot a score of 587 (291 in precision and 296 in rapid) in the individual competition to grab the gold ahead of American Henry Leverett (584) and Korean Lee Jaekyoon (582).
Pravin Sawant now hopes his archery training academy, built on one-acre sugarcane farmland, will finally get due recognition, after producing India's two world champions Aditi Swami and Ojas Deotale.
Rathore shot 139 in the qualifying rounds, but it was not enough to figure among the finalists at the World Shooting Championships.
I decided to become a shooter after watching Abhinav Bindra win a gold medal for the country, 21-one-year-old shooter Apurvi Chandela tells Shahnawaz Akhtar.
Jitu Rai became the first Indian shooter to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics after bagging a quota place with an impressive silver medal-finish at the 51st Shooting World Championships, in Granada.
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.
India's pistol shooter Heena Sidhu pulled out of the Asian Airgun Shooting Championship in Iran due to the compulsory hijab rule for all women athletes.
The Indian pair will face the Russian team in the summit clash on Friday.
The duo pipped hosts Australia and England to win the team gold in double trap in the Commonwealth Shooting Championship.
Zoravar Singh Sandhu missed an Olympic quota berth but won a bronze medal at the ISSF World Cup shotgun championships in Changwon, Korea.
India's top pistol shooter Heena Sidhu secured an Olympic quota for the country after she led from start to finish and claimed the gold medal in women's 10-m air pistol on Day 1 of competition at the Asia Olympic Qualifiers for Shooting, in New Delhi, on Wednesday.
Rathore kept his lead to muster 141 out of 150 in the initial rounds of the National Shooting Championship and then fired 45 in the final round to take his tally to 186 for the gold medal.
India's Ankur Mittal won silver medal in the men's double trap event at the ongoing ISSF World Shotgun Championship, in Moscow, on Tuesday.
Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore says his damaged gun cost him a place in final of the double trap event at World Shooting Championships.
Pistol aces Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu bagged a bronze each to continue India's medal charge at the 10th Asian Championship 10m Rifle/Pistol in Wako City.
The ace Indian marksman lost to his coach and had to settle for the silver medal in the double trap event at the Commonwealth Shooting Championships.
OGQ has launched a crowd funding campaign to assist training and preparation of their potential medal winning athletes -- Irfan KT (Race Walking), Vikas Gowda (Discus Throw), Ayonika Paul and Pooja Ghatkar (both Rifle Shooting).
Italy qualified for Euro 2024 after drawing 0-0 against Ukraine in their final Group C qualifier on Monday.
