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| Nationality | Indian | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 March 2002 [1] | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  India | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | shooting | |||||||||||||||||
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Ashi Chouksey is an Indian sport shooter. She won the silver medal in women's 10 metre air rifle team in the 2022 Asian Games. [2] [3] [4]
Chouksey hails from Bhopal. [5] She did her schooling at Carmel Convent, BHEL, Bhopal where she joined NCC in her Class 9. She learnt the basics of shooting at NCC. [5] Later, she pursued a sports degree from the Guru Nanak Dev University. [6] Her father Padam Kant Chouksey works in the Indian Railways. She started her formal training at the MP State Shooting Academy, Bhopal, under coaches Suma Shirur and Vaibhav Sharma. [7]
In 2022, Chouksey won a gold medal in the mixed team event at the ISSF World Cup in Baku. [7] In the same year, she also won a bronze in the team event in the ISSF World Cup in Changwon. [7]
In the National shooting selections trials in 2024, she shot a world record score in the women’s 50-metre rifle 3-position event at the Madhya Pradesh Academy on 28 February 2024. [8] She broke the world record of 596, jointly held by Jenny Stene of Norway and Sagen Maddalena of the USA, by scoring 597. [8]
She is now an aspirant for the 2024 Paris Olympics
Anjali Bhagwat is a professional Indian sport shooter. She became the World Number One in 10m Air Rifle in 2002. She also won her first World Cup Final in Milan, in 2003, with a score of 399/400.
Master Chief Petty Officer Sanjeev Rajput is an Arjuna Awardee Indian sport shooter from Yamuna Nagar, Haryana. He was a retired Junior Commissioned Officer in Indian Navy.
Martina Lindsay Veloso is a Singaporean sports shooter. She won the gold medal in the 2014 ISSF World Cup in the 10 meters Air Rifle Women event and thus becoming the youngest ISSF shooter in getting one. She has also won the silver medal in 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. She was named Sportsgirl of the Year for 2015 and Sportswoman of the Year for 2019.
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.
Arjun Babuta is an Indian sport shooter, supported by OGQ. He is from Chandigarh who competes in the 10 meter air rifle events. Arjun has been a part of the Indian Shooting Team since 2016. He has represented India at the ISSF Junior World Cup 2016(Suhl), ISSF Junior World Cup 2016(Gabala), ISSF Junior World Championship 2017(Suhl) and the ISSF Junior World Cup 2018(Sydney).
Manu Bhaker is an Indian Olympian who competes at shooting, supported by OGQ. She represented India at the 2018 ISSF World Cup and won two gold medals. She is the youngest Indian to win a gold medal at the ISSF World Cup. She won the gold medal in women's 10 m air pistol event at 2018 Commonwealth Games just at the age of 16 in her maiden Commonwealth Games appearance. She won the team gold for India in the women’s 25m pistol team event at the Asian Games, along with Esha Singh and Rhythm Sangwan.
Anjum Moudgil is an Indian sport shooter. She is from Chandigarh and represents Punjab. She is supported by GoSports Foundation through the Rahul Dravid Athlete Mentorship Programme.
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.
Shriyanka Sadangi is an Indian shooter from Odisha. She has represented her state and India at national and international level.
Esha Singh is an Indian amateur shooter, supported by OGQ. She became the national champion in the 10m Air Pistol category in 2018. She clinched an Olympic quota berth in the 10m Air Pistol category for the Paris Olympic Games at the Asian Qualifier at Jakarta on 8 January 2024. She was also conferred the Arjun Award for 2023 but missed the event on 9 January 2024 due to the Asian qualifier.
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.
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.
Rhythm Sangwan is an Indian pistol shooter from Haryana, supported by OGQ. She usually competes in 10m Air Pistol and 25m Pistol. She has won medals in Shooting World Cups and Shooting Championship at junior as well as at senior level.
Manini Kaushik is an Indian sport shooter. She won the silver medal in Women's 50 metre rifle three positions in the 2022 Asian Games.
Sift Kaur Samra is an Indian sport shooter, supported by OGQ. She holds the current world record in Women's 50 metre rifle three positions final which was set while she won the gold medal in the Women's 50 metre rifle three positions event at the 2022 Asian Games. She was also a part of the team that won the silver medal in the Women's 50 metre rifle three positions team event at the 2022 Asian Games.
Divya Thadigol Subbaraju is an Indian sport shooter from Karnataka. She competes in the skeet discipline. She is part of the Indian shooting team at the Asian Games, Hangzhou, China.
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. She won the Asian Games gold in the 10m air pistol with an Asian Games record and added another silver in the team event. India won both gold and silver in the women 10m air pistol event with Esha Singh finishing second. She trains with the support of Reliance Foundation.
Varun Tomar is an Indian sport shooter, supported by OGQ. 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 Bengaluru. In October 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. She is the youngest Indian to win a quota for the Olympics, and if selected to the Indian team, she would be the third youngest Indian at Olympics in Paris.
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