A few Indian shooters are scheduled to participate in a competition in their homeland during the third week of July in an effort to gain some ‘advance knowledge’ of how to line up at the range that will host the events at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The upcoming competition will begin on July 15 at the same range that will host the shooting competitions of the 2024 Olympic Games in the French capital.
This competition, which is held precisely one year before the quadrennial extravaganza, won’t include all of the shooters who were chosen for the ISSF World Championships and Hangzhou Asian Games, but quite a few of them are scheduled to hit the Paris range in the coming days.
According to a National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) source who spoke with PTI, the team will include both shooters who were selected earlier but were not in the current Indian squad for the World Championship and Asian Games.
The source continued, “As far as the competing shooters are concerned, competing in the upcoming competition in Paris will provide them with invaluable experience as well as advance knowledge about what to expect from the range that will host the Olympic Games.”
From 2004 to 2012, the Indian shooters won medals at three consecutive Olympics, but they have failed to place on the podium in the last two Olympics, going home empty-handed.
The Indian team for the rifle and pistol competitions at the upcoming Asian Games and the 2018 World Championships was revealed by the NRAI last week.
The squad was chosen following the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range’s final national selection trials for a select group of rifle and pistol shooters. For the World Championship in Baku and the Hangzhou Games, a preliminary team of shotgun shooters was introduced earlier.
There will be 21 shooters travelling for the Hangzhou Asian Games in China, which run from September 23 to October 8. Eleven pistol shooters and ten rifle shooters will be competing. The Indian shooting team includes Olympians Manu Bhaker and Divyansh Singh Panwar in addition to current men’s 10m air rifle champion Rudranksh Balasaheb Patil.
India will send a 22-person rifle and pistol squad to the Baku World Championships, which will take place in Azerbaijan from August 14 to September 1.
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