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Home | Other Sports | Indian Shooters Eye Olympic Glory

Indian shooters eye Olympic glory

All of the 15 shooters are capable of winning medals, but few are seen as sure shot to secure podium finishes in the events that start on Saturday

By PTI
Published Date - 10:18 PM, Fri - 23 July 21
Indian shooters eye Olympic glory
Elavenil Valarivan. —Photo: AP/PTI
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Tokyo: Entering the Tokyo Olympics on the back of an unprecedented run that began sometime after the inexplicable meltdown in the Rio de Janeiro Games, Indian shooters bagging a medal or two, or, even three to four, is a tangible reality.

All of the 15 shooters are capable of winning medals, but few are seen as sure shot to secure podium finishes in the events that start on Saturday. One among them is the highly-skilled Saurabh Chaudhary, who will have a few Olympic and world champions standing in his way to glory at sport’s biggest showpiece.

Alongside Abhishek Verma, Chaudhary will be part of the first competition day action in the men’s 10m air pistol event. But before that, the fate of Apurvi Chandela and Elavenil Valarivan — in the women’s 10m air rifle event — will be decided. A good outing for either of them means India will have won their first medal in these Games.

Both Chandela and Elavenil will enter the competition with plenty to look forward to, despite the occasional blips here and there. Three-time ISSF World Cup gold medallist Chandela has endured a bit of rough time in the run up to the Games, having contracted Covid-19 and then testing negative just in time to board the flight for the Indian team’s training-cum-competition tour of Croatia.

Abhishek Verma. -Photo: PTI/AP

The 21-year-old Elavenil, world number 1 and considered one of the country’s finest rifle shooters after some fine performances since breaking into the senior team, will certainly fancy her chances too.

What could aid her all the more is that she has been trained by Olympics medallist Gagan Narang for the past seven years, including throughout the stay in Zagreb. Chaudhary prefers to live in a world of his own, likes to keep interaction with those trying to know him, to bare minimum, and mostly responds in monosyllables.

While most of his colleagues in the Indian shooting Olympic team talk and also let their guns, pistols and shotguns do the talking, the 19-year-old Chaudhary only does the latter.
Chaudhary has done it end number of times in what has so far been an incredibly successful six-year shooting career, due to which he has entered Tokyo as one of the hot favourites to win a medal.

On the second competition day, India will have the sensational Manu Bhaker and the hard-working Yashaswini Singh Deswal representing the country in the women’s 10m air pistol competition.

The women’s 10m pistol event has attracted maximum number of entries but that should not worry the two Indian shooters given their skills and consistency over the years.

In the men’s 10m air rifle event, India will have the teenaged Divyansh Singh Panwar and the experienced Deepak Kumar, with the former especially seen as a strong contender after his superb run of form since breaking into the senior team in 2019.

If these eight participants fire on the first two days, India can expect a handful of medals at the Games, which will make up for returning empty-handed from the 2016 Rio Games.

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