Pistol shooter Saurabh Chaudhary rediscovers his touch
Hindustan TimesNew Delhi: For five years from 2018, Saurabh Chaudhary would hold his Morini pistol so steady and shoot with such precision that it was assumed the prodigiously talented youngster would always win an Olympic medal for India. On Thursday, Saurabh Chaudhary delivered a qualification score of 591 in Men’s 10m Air Pistol, rewriting his own national record of 589 set in 2021 Multiple gold medals in World Cups, Asian Games title, world records, world No.1 – they kept coming. It’s not a physical sport, it’s a mental sport.” Coaches at the High Performance Centre in SAI, NCOE here pitched in to recommend Saurabh’s name for the residential facility at the Karni Singh Range. He is a simple guy and just needed that assurance about his craft,” says Deepak Dubey, who was High Performance coach, Khelo India, when Saurabh joined the NCOE in 2023.