Personal information | |
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Born | Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India |
Education | Master of Computer Applications (MCA) |
Alma mater | College of Engineering, Trivandrum [1] [2] |
Years active | 2008- |
Other interests | Guitar, Painting, Stamp Collection, Fishing |
Sport | |
Country | India (IND) |
Sport | Shooting |
Achievements and titles | |
Paralympic finals | Qualified for 2020 Tokyo, 2024 Paris |
World finals | Won in 2021 (Bronze), 2017 (Bronze) Para Shooting Worldcups |
Regional finals | Won Gold Medal with games record in Asian Para Games 2022, [3] South Indian 50-m Prone Rifle Shooting Champion |
National finals | Holds national record from 2014 in 50-m Prone Rifle Para Category |
Sidhartha Babu is an Indian self-taught, international rifle shooter from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He is currently based in Bengaluru, India. He has qualified for shooting at the 2024 Paris Paramlympics [4] through the 2022 Asian Para Games conducted in Hangzhou, China (22-28 October 2023) [5] with a record-breaking performance. Also, he had represented India in the 2020 Tokyo Paramlympics [6] for Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1 through the performance in Para World Shooting Championship (12-18 October 2019) held in Sydney, Australia.
Mostly a self-taught shooter, Sidhartha learned the basics of shooting from reading books which he borrowed from the library. In a sport that requires high levels of concentration, precision and calmness, Sidhartha, despite his obvious physical shortcoming, is second to none.
He won the gold in 50m men's prone air rifle shooting in the 2016 Kerala State Shooting championship and it was for the first time that a differently-abled shooter had won the competition, competing with mainstream shooters. Sidhartha had also won a team bronze for India in para shooting World Cup that was held at Thailand in 2017.
Sidhartha Babu was a martial art enthusiast, who was teaching karate at the age of 19. A few years later he met with an accident that paralysed him. After that accident and few years later, he decided to try his luck at the rifle club in Idukki, Kerala state. Now, he is the current national champion and national record holder in para shooting. In 2018, he could train himself under olympic champion Sergei Martinov. In 2019, he participated in Para Shooting World Championship conducted in Sydney, Australia.
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