Paris Olympics 2024: ‘Indian Shooting Is Unique, You Can’t Predict Anything’, Says Manavjit Singh Sandhu

Trap Shooter Manavjit Singh Sandhu is hopeful of 'two to four medals' from the Indian shooting squad at the Paris Olympics.

Jul 22, 2024 - 22:30

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Paris Olympics 2024: ‘Indian Shooting Is Unique, You Can’t Predict Anything’, Says Manavjit Singh Sandhu

Faridabad: Trap Shooter Manavjit Singh Sandhu is hopeful of ‘two to 4 medals’ from the Indian taking images squad on the Paris Olympics. India’s 21-member taking images squad is the 2nd largest after athletics inside of the upcoming Paris Olympics. Additionally it be miles India’s largest-ever taking images contingent inside of the documents of the Games, surpassing the previous superior of 15 from Tokyo.

Just because the sequence of shooters has extended inside of the squad, their expectations have additionally elevated manyfold, after firing blanks and returning empty-handed from the closing two Olympics no count inserting up a tutorial materials sequence of gamers.

On the determination hand, Olympian Manavjit feels that this squad, a combination of young and experienced members, will excel inside of the Olympics.

“The common squad looks assured and I be counted on two to 4 medals, mostly from the young squad. Every participant is well-skilled and has worked problematic for the spot. Your finished gamers are world-class and additionally elevate a couple of of journey. So the customary performance is likely to be an unfavorable lot bigger than previous appearances,” Manavjit suggested IANS on the sidelines of the ‘Glory of Five Rings’ tournament.

“The great thing is that the character of our taking images is appreciably diverse. The least predicted one performs on the pinnacle level. So which you merely can’t name one and all from the squad,” he launched.

India’s closing Olympic medal(s) inside of the sport bought here inside of the 2012 London Olympics when Vijay Kumar shot a silver in guys’s 25m brief fireplace pistol and

Gagan Narang claimed a bronze medal in guys’s 10m air rifle. Narang is at this time in Paris as India’s Chef-de-Mission.

India’s first Olympic medal in taking images became bagged by skill of Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore when he claimed silver in guys’s double lure inside of the 2004 Athens Olympics. Seeing that then the usa has clinched three bigger medals inside of the sport together with Abhinav Bindra’s historic first grownup gold in guys’s 10m air rifle inside of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

The shooters is likely to be shouldering the largest burden of the hopes as they are going to be hoping to notice success for the first time just because the 2012 Games. Our largest hopes inside of the 21-member taking images squad is likely to be centred round rifle shooters Sarabjot Singh, Manu Bhaker, Sift Kaur Samra, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Swapnil Kusale and Rhythm.

“Anjum Moudgil is the one who will strive for the medal and she is a champion participant and when Anjum shoots well the determination young americans inside of the squad additionally get self conception from that. So how young americans will elevate out all relies on on the seniors they are going to should share their self conception with the determination members.

India’s taking images squad for Paris Olympics:

Rifle

Guys’s 10m air rifle: Sandeep Singh, Arjun Babuta

Girls’s 10m air rifle: Elavenil Valarivan, Ramita Jindal

Girls’s 50m rifle 3 positions: Sift Kaur Samra, Anjum Moudgil

Guys’s 50m rifle 3 positions: Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Swapnil Kusale

10m air rifle blended team: Sandeep Singh/Elavenil Valarivan, Arjun Babuta/Ramita Jindal

Pistol

Guys’s 10m air pistol: Sarabjot Singh, Arjun Cheema

Girls’s 10m air pistol: Manu Bhaker, Rhythm Sangwan

Guys’s 25m brief fireplace pistol: Anish Bhanwala, Vijayveer Sidhu

Girls’s 25m pistol: Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh