Competing in her final junior worldwide occasion, 20-year-old shooter Ganemat Sekhon from Punjab received a silver medal within the ladies’s skeet class on the ISSF Junior World Championships in Lima, Peru on Thursday. Sekhon, a scholar of SD College Sector 32, who grew to become the primary Indian lady skeet shooter to win a medal on the Junior ISSF World Cup in 2018, received a bronze medal on the ISSF World Cup in Delhi in March this yr. First Indian senior skeet shooter to attain this feat. They have been each tied on 46 factors within the last, shedding 2–0 to Alicia of the USA within the shoot-off for the gold medal.
“It was my last international tournament as a junior and I am happy to end my junior career with a medal in the World Cup. The conditions in the final were quite challenging as the wind got very strong here. But I am happy that I was able to do well in such conditions. Another challenge was to get used to the time difference. But my training under coach Piero Genga helped me a lot”, shared Sekhon whereas speaking to The Indian Express.
Sekhon took an curiosity in taking pictures since childhood. She carries on her household legacy, her great-grandfather Captain Chhatar Singh was a a number of royal taking pictures competitors champion within the Forties and her grandfather Mohinderpal Singh was a nationwide degree shooter. She began taking pictures in 2015 on the insistence of her father Amarinder Singh and claimed a silver medal within the ladies’s skeet occasion on the Senior National Shooting Championship in Pune. He carried out equally on the 2017 Nationals in Delhi and the 2018 Nationals in Jaipur. In 2018, Sekhon grew to become the primary Indian to win a bronze medal on the ISSF Junior World Championships in Sydney, Australia. In 2019, Sekhon received a silver medal on the Asian Shooting Championships in Doha earlier than profitable the historic bronze medal on the ISSF World Cup in Delhi in March this yr. Sekhon together with Angad Veer Bajwa received the gold medal within the combined skeet group competitors in Delhi.
“The bronze medal at the ISSF World Cup was a boost to my senior shooting career and gave me a lot of confidence to believe in myself while competing at the senior level. The time after the World Cup was tough as I was not able to travel to Italy for my training. This meant that I could only seek guidance over the phone from my coach Piero Genga. I was training for the Kazakhstan World Cup before it was cancelled”, Sekhon mentioned.
The 20-year-old, whose household lately relocated from Zirakpur to Kansal, believes the following yr is essential for her in her objective of competing within the 2024 Paris Olympics. “I am working on my physical and mental fitness. Presently the Indian skeet team is without a coach and we hope to get a coach soon. Training abroad will be crucial before next year’s Asian Games and winning a medal there will boost my confidence to qualify for the 2024 Olympics and achieve my goal of winning a medal,” shared Sekhon.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
