2024 Paris Olympics, shooting: Key details about Indian contingent
The 33rd edition of the Summer Olympics went underway on July 26 in Paris, the capital of France. Over 10,000 athletes will feature at the Paris Games for 19 days, which involves 329 events. India, which will field 117 athletes, own a total of 35 medals at the Games. Have a look at key details of India's shooting squad at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
21 shooters to take part
A total of 21 Indian shooters will be in action. This will be the largest-ever Indian shooting team at the Olympics. Former Youth Olympics champion Manu Bhaker will lead the Indian contingent. She will participate in three events. Meanwhile, a total of 15 shooting events will take place at the 2024 Paris Olympics. There will be representatives from India at each event.
Participants in the rifle event
Sandeep Singh and Arjun Babuta will take part in the men's 10m air rifle event. The women's category of the event will see Elavenil Valarivana and Ramita Jindal in action. Sift Kaur Samra and Anjum Moudgil will take part in the women's 50m rifle 3 positions competition. Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Swapnil Kusale will feature in the men's 50m rifle 3 positions event.
Details of the mixed team events
The pair of Sandeep Singh-Elavenil Valarivan and Arjun Babuta-Ramita Jindal will be seen in action in the 10m air rifle mixed team event. Coming to the 10m air pistol mixed team competition, Sarabjot Singh-Manu Bhaker and Arjun Singh Cheema-Rhythm Sangwan will participate in pairs. Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Maheshwari Chauhan will join forces in the skeet mixed team event.
What about the other pistol events?
Sarabjot Singh and Arjun Cheema will take part in the men's 10m air pistol event. The women's 10m air pistol event will see Manu Bhaker and Rhythm Sangwan represent India. Details of the other pistol events: Men's 25m rapid fire pistol: Anish Bhanwala, Vijayveer Sidhu. Women's 25m pistol: Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh.
List of the shotgun competitions
Four individual shotgun events will take place this year with six Indian athletes being in action. They are as follows: Men's trap: Prithviraj Tondaiman. Women's trap: Rajeshwari Kumari, Shreyasi Singh. Men's skeet: Anantjeet Singh Naruka. Women's skeet: Maheshwari Chauhan, Raiza Dhillon.
Four medals in shooting
India have tallied a total of four Olympic medals in shooting, which includes one gold, one bronze, and a couple of silver. The gold was clinched by none other than the legendary Abhinav Bindra in 2008. Rajyavardhan Singh (silver in 2004), Gagan Narang (bronze in 2012), and Vijay Kumar (silver in 2012) are the other Indian shooters with Olympic medals.
