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| Nationality | Indian | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 July 1995 Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, India | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Graduate | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 88 kg (194 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Life partner | Single | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | India | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Akhil Sheoran (born 23 July 1995) in a Jat family in district Baghpat, is a professional Indian sport shooter, supported by OGQ. [1] He won the bronze medal in the men's 50m rifle 3 positions event, at the 2023 ISSF World Championships, in Baku. [2] [3] [4]
Sergey Rikhter is a Ukrainian-born Israeli Olympic sport shooter.
Seonaid McIntosh is a British sports shooter who became the World Champion at the 2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships in the 50m Prone Rifle event. In 2019 she became Britain's most successful female rifle shooter of all time, winning five World Cup medals. She also became the first British Woman to rank World #1 for the 50m Rifle Three Position event and became European Champion in the 300m Rifle Prone event with an equal World Record score.
Mehuli Ghosh is an Indian sport shooter, supported by OGQ. She represents India at international junior shooting championships across the world. Among 123 competitors, she was the only Indian shooting athlete to reach the finals of the 2018 junior shooting competition held in the Czech Republic. She ranked seventh there. In 2018, at the XXI Commonwealth Games held at Gold Coast, Australia, she won a silver medal in Women's 10m Air Rifle after a shoot-off with Martina Veloso. As of September 2023, she was ranked 36th in the world and 14th in Asia.
Saniya Shaikh is an international shooter, representing India in Women Skeet (SK75) (SK125) event in International Shooting Sport Federation.
Anish Bhanwala born:-26 September 2002 in a Jat family of Bhanwala gotra in village Kashandi Sonipat Haryana is an Indian pistol shooter, supported by OGQ. He is from Karnal Haryana and competes in the 25 meter rapid fire pistol, 25 meter pistol, and 25 meter standard pistol events. Anish joined the Indian Shooting Team in 2017. He represented India at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, 2018 Asian Games, ISSF Junior World Championship 2017 (Suhl), Commonwealth Shooting Championships 2017 (Brisbane), World Shooting Championships 2018 and numerous ISSF Senior and Junior World Cups and South Asian Games, Kathmandu.
Kirsty Hegarty is a British trap shooter from Northern Ireland.
Lakshay Sheoran is an Indian sport shooter. He won silver medal in trap shooting at the 2018 Asian Games.
Saurabh Chaudhary is an Indian sport shooter. He won the gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games in 10 m Air Pistol. He was the youngest Indian gold medalist at the Asian Games. He had earlier won gold medals and set a new junior world record in the ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany. He is the only Indian shooter to win a gold medal in ISSF World Championship, ISSF World Cup, Youth Olympic Games, Asian Games and Asian Air Gun Championship. He broke his own world record with a score of 245.5 and claimed gold in Junior Men 10m Air Pistol at 2018 World Championship in Changwon, Korea.
Amit Sheoran is a pistol shooting coach, who also competed at a national level, He had to leave shooting due to the death of his father. He has produced several national and international-level Indian pistol shooters. He has coached Saurabh Chaudhary.
Divyansh Singh Panwar is an Indian sport shooter, supported by OGQ. He won the silver medal in the 10 metre air rifle event at the 2019 ISSF World Cup in Beijing and secured a quota position for India at the 2020 Summer Olympics where he achieved rank 32 at the Men's 10 metre air rifle event.
Chinki Yadav is an Indian sport shooter who competes in the 25 metre pistol event. She secured a quota place for India at the 2020 Summer Olympics by qualifying for the final of the 2019 Asian Shooting Championships.
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar is an Indian sport shooter, supported by OGQ. He won the bronze medal in the 50 metre rifle three positions event at the 2019 Asian Shooting Championships and secured a quota place for India at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Rajeshwari Ria Kumari is an Indian sports shooter and fashion designer. Kumari is a trap shooter and has won medals in both domestic and international competitions. She won the silver medal at the Women's trap team event in the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou. In 2024, Kumari qualified for the Women's trap event in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. As of 2024, she is the 9th ranked women's trap shooter in the world. Kumari is a co-founder of Saurab Rajeshwari, a luxury Indian clothing and embroidery brand founded in 2021.
Ganemat Sekhon is an Indian sport shooter who specializes in skeet. At the 2021 ISSF World Cup in New Delhi, Sekhon became the first Indian to win a medal in the Women's skeet event of an ISSF World Cup. She is right handed and is right eye dominant. She is part of the Indian shooting team at the Asian Games, Hangzhou, China. She was part of the Indian women's skeet team along with Darshna Rathore and Parinaaz Dhaliwal, that finished fourth in the Asian Games shooting competitions.
Rudrankksh Patil is an Indian sport shooter, supported by OGQ. He won medals at the Shooting World Cup. In December 2022, he ranked first in 10m air rifle in ISSF rankings. He won an Olympic quota berth for India in Men's 10m air rifle for the Paris Olympics.
Darshna Rathore is an Indian sport shooter. She competes in the skeet discipline. She is part of the Indian shooting team at the Asian Games, Hangzhou, China. She was part of the Indian women's skeet team, along with Parinaaz Dhaliwal, and Ganemat Sekhon that finished fourth in the Asian Games shooting competitions.
Palak Gulia is an Indian sport shooter from village Nimana, Jhajjar, Haryana. She competes in the 10m air pistol discipline. She is part of the Indian shooting team at the Asian Games, Hangzhou, China.
Varun Tomar is an Indian sport shooter, supported by Olympic Gold Quest, a not for profit sports NGO. He bagged an Olympic quota berth for the Paris Olympics in the 10m Air Pistol event by winning a gold medal at the Asian Olympic Qualifiers on 8 January 2024 at Jakarta.
Raiza Dhillon is an Indian sport shooter. She qualified for an Olympic quota berth for the Paris Olympics in the women's skeet event by winning a gold medal at the Asian shotgun championships, an Asian Olympic Qualifier on 20 January 2024 at Kuwait city. She became the first Indian woman to potentially qualify for an Olympic skeet event. It also brought the Indian Olympic quota count to 19. The quota berth won by a shooter is a berth for the country and the Federation, which can nominate any shooter for Olympics, as per set criteria.
Tilottama Sen is an Indian sport shooter from Bangalore. In 2023, she won the silver medal in the women's 10m air rifle event at the Asian Shooting Championship at Changwon in South Korea, earning a quota place for the Paris Olympics.
