Arjun Babuta

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Arjun Babuta
Personal information
NationalityFlag of India.svg  Indian
Born (1999-01-24) 24 January 1999 (age 26)
Jalalabad, Fazilka, Punjab, India
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event 10 m air rifle
Coached by Deepali Deshpande [1]
Achievements and titles
Highest world ranking3
Medal record
Men's 10 m air rifle shooting Shooting pictogram.svg
Representing Flag of India.svg  India
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Cairo Team
World Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Changwon Individual
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Changwon Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Munich Mixed Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Cairo Mixed Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Lima Individual
Asian Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Changwon Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Shymkent Mixed Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Shymkent Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Changwon Individual
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2024 Jakarta Team
Asian Airgun Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Daegu Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Daegu Mixed Team
Junior World Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2016 Gabala Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 Gabala Individual
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Sydney Individual
World University Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Chengdu Team

Arjun Babuta (born 24 January 1999) is an Indian sport shooter who competes in the 10 meter air rifle event. Babuta competed at the 2024 Olympics, where he narrowly missed the podium with a fourth-place finish in the men's 10 m air rifle event. [2]

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Early life

Babuta was born on 24 January 1999 in Jalalabad, Fazilka. [3] He is the son of Neeraj Babuta and the famous Punjabi author-poet Deepti Babuta. [4] He later moved to Chandigarh where he pursued a career in shooting. He obtained his undergraduate degree from DAV College, Chandigarh, and is studying mass communication and journalism at the Lovely Professional University as of 2022. [5] [6]

Career

Babuta won one gold medal and one bronze medal in the 10m air rifle event at 2016 ISSF Junior World Cup in Gabala. [7] In 2017, he won silver at the 10th Asian Airgun Championship, Wako City in Japan. [8]

He also won the silver in the 27th Meeting of Shooting Hopes 2017 international junior competition, Plzen, Czech Republic. [9] He won one bronze in 2018 ISSF Junior World Cup in Sydney. [10]

A career-threatening back problem kept him out of action from 2018 to 2020. He won gold medals at the 2022 ISSF World Cup in Changwon in 10 metre air rifle, both in the individual and team events. [5]

At the 2023 Asian Shooting Championships, Babuta won silver in the 10 metre air rifle event, earning India a quota place to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. He also won gold in the team event with Divyansh Singh Panwar and Hriday Hazarika. [11]

At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, the pair of Babuta and Ramita Jindal finished 6th among 28 teams in the qualifying round of the 10 metre air rifle mixed team event, failing to progress to the medal rounds. [12] Babuta made it to the final of men's 10 metre air rifle after placing seventh in qualification. [13] He finished fourth in the closely-contested final. [14]

Issues Raised

Arjun Babuta raised the issues of not receiving support from the Punjab State Government even though he was allegedly promised a government job in 2022. [15]

References

  1. ↑ "ISSF - International Shooting Sport Federation". www.issf-sports.org. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  2. ↑ "Arjun Babuta's heartbreaking 4th place finish at Paris Olympics". indianshooting.com. 29 July 2024. Retrieved 4 July 2025.
  3. ↑ "Arjun Babuta finishes fourth in Paris Olympics 2024 in Men's 10 meter air rifle: All about his family, education, journey". The Times of India. 29 January 2024. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  4. ↑ "Mohali-based Deepti Babuta becomes first woman to bag Dhahan Prize for Punjabi literature". Hindustan Times. 17 November 2023. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  5. 1 2 Dey, Santadeep (21 July 2022). "Once unable to stand for long with troubled back, Arjun Babuta outguns Olympic silver medallist". Sportstar. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  6. ↑ "Silver for Arjun in international meet". Tribune India. 29 May 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  7. ↑ "Chandigarh shooter Arjun Babuta shoots bronze at Junior World Cup". Indian Express. 21 September 2016.
  8. ↑ "Arjun Babuta claims silver in 10m air rifle at Asian Airgun Championship". Hindustan Times. 9 December 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  9. ↑ "Meeting of Shooting Hopes: Arjun Babuta and Anmol Jain fire silver". Sportstarlive. 27 May 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  10. ↑ "Arjun Babuta shoots his way to bronze at Junior world cup". Indian Express. 23 March 2018.
  11. ↑ "Asian Championships: Arjun Babuta's silver and Tilottama Sen's silver secure Olympic quota in the 10m air rifle events". The Times of India. 27 October 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  12. ↑ "Paris Olympics: Indian shooters miss out on medal rounds in 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team event". The Times of India. 27 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  13. ↑ "Paris Olympics 2024: PV Sindhu opens campaign with dominant win; Arjun Babuta through to men's 10m air rifle final". DNA india.
  14. ↑ "Paris Olympics 2024: Arjun Babuta misses medal in 10m air rifle men's final, finishes fourth". The Indian Express. 29 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  15. ↑ "Shooter Arjun Babuta slams Punjab government for lack of support: 'Have not received any benefit'". Firstpost. 3 August 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
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