Last Updated: December 15, 2023, 14:56 IST
12 shooters will symbolize India in the shotgun qualifiers. (AFP Photo)
The Indian shooters have already received 13 quota spots for Paris Games and might be trying to add to that tally in these tournaments.
Ace shooters Manavjit Singh Sandhu and Anjum Moudgil will make their nationwide comeback throughout subsequent month’s Asian Olympic qualifiers in Jakarta and Kuwait City respectively.
While the qualifiers for rifle and pistol occasions might be held in Jakarta, Indonesia, from January 5 to 18, the shotgun qualifiers will happen in Kuwait City from January 12 to 23.
India have fielded a 20-member rifle and pistol squad, whereas a 12-shooter contingent will symbolize the nation in the shotgun qualifiers.
A complete of 16 quotas for subsequent 12 months’s Olympics at Paris are up for grabs in Jakarta for rifle and pistol occasions, whereas eight spots can be found in the shotgun competitors.
The Indian shooters have already received 13 quota spots for Paris Games and might be trying to add to that tally in these tournaments.
According to a National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) launch, the squads have been chosen on the premise of present home rankings and people who have already got been certified are disregarded.
In the Jakarta occasion, India might be trying to add to their pistol quotas in explicit, given 5 extra spots are nonetheless to be received. All the eight quota locations in rifle occasions have already been secured.
In Kuwait, India have six quota locations to goal for — 4 in skeet and two in entice capturing.
Pistol shooter Gurpreet Singh may also be seen in motion in Jakarta.
Sri Karthik Sabari Raj (males’s 10m air rifle), Ujjawal Malik (males’s 10m air pistol) and Bhavya Tripathi (ladies’s entice) will make their senior group debuts.
Three shooters — Tilottama Sen (ladies’s 10m air rifle, ranked seventh), Shriyanka Sadangi (ladies’s 50m rifle 3 positions, ranked seventh) and Bhowneesh Mendiratta (males’s entice, ranked sixth), who’re quota holders and never among the many high three, have additionally been included in the squad to shoot in the RPO (rating factors solely) class and won’t be competing for medals.
Four different quota holders expressed their incapacity to take part in these competitions.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – PTI)
