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Full name | Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Indian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Thane, Maharashtra, India | 16 December 2003|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Rifle shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 10m air rifle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Highest world ranking | 1st (current) [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil (born 16 December 2003), also known as Rudrankkash Balasaheb Patil, is an Indian sport shooter. He won medals at the Shooting World Cup. [2] [3] In December 2022, he ranked first in 10m air rifle [4] in ISSF rankings. He won an Olympic quota berth for India in Men's 10m air rifle for the Paris Olympics. [5]
Patil was born in Thane, Maharashtra. His learnt shooting initially from Coach Snehal Kadam at PTKS Ville Parle for 5 to 6 years then from coach Ajit Patil at Thane. His father, Balasaheb Patil and mother, Hemangini Patil, encouraged him to take up shooting. Initially, he started with chess and football but shifted to shooting.
At the 2022 Asian Games at Hangzhou, Patil scored a world record score on way to winning India's first gold medal [6] on 25 September 2023. He secured a Paris 2024 Olympic quota berth, after winning gold in the 10m air rifle event at the 2022 ISSF World Shooting Championships [7] [8] at Cairo, the new administrative capital, on 14 October 2022. [9] Earlier in the 2022 Asian Championships in Daegu, he bagged first place in the Men’s 10m air rifle team event. [6] He is preparing for the Paris Olympics under coach Neha Chavan at Gun for Glory Academy in Pune. [10] Gagan Narang, co-founder of the Academy and vice-president of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) helped him get a sponsored gun from Walther company, Germany, which was presented to him at a press conference in Pune. [11]
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