National rifle coach and former Olympian, Deepali Deshpande, is confident of the Indian shooting team learning from the recent Tokyo Games and putting up an improved show in the 33rd edition of the Summer Games in Paris in 2024. The Indian shooting contingent drew a blank at the Tokyo 2020, the second successive time at the quadrennial event that the …
Asian Games champion Rahi Sarnobat, demolished a finals field which included reigning Olympic Champion Anna Korakaki of Greece, to strike gold in the Women’s 25M Pistol, giving India her first yellow metal of the on going International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun stage in the Croatian city of Osijek. The Indian ace shot 39 hits out of a possible …
Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary won their sixth 10M Air Pistol Mixed TeamInternational Shooting Sport Federation World Cup medal on the trot, only this time their first silver after a run of five gold medals, going down to the Russian pair of Vitalina Batsarashkina and Artem Chernousov 12-16 in the gold medal match on Saturday in Osijek, Croatia. India now …
Rifle coach Oleg Mikhailov and pistol coach Pavel Smirnov will be the only instructors staying with Indian shooters for the entire duration of the Tokyo Olympics, with the others serving the team in turns as per a ruling necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. READ| Tejaswini tops MQS round in 50M rifle prone event at Euro Championships "So for India's 15 …