At least eight Indian shooters, who’ve gone to the Olympics, together with a number of the nation’s largest medal hopes in Tokyo, can be seen in motion on the European Championships to be held right here on Monday.
Participating within the continental match as a visitor invitee, the Indians will solely be taking pictures within the Minimum Qualifying Score (MQS) part, and subsequently, their rating won’t be thought of to qualify for the finals.
So the rostrum end within the match is beneath query for Indian shooters, however they are going to don’t have any objection as it should not less than give them a extra aggressive platform to check themselves forward of this summer season’s all-important Tokyo Olympics. .
Three Indians – Deepak Kumar, Divyansh Singh Panwar and Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar – can be taking pictures within the males’s 10-meter air rifle MQS together with 12 different members. While Kumar and Divyansh are going to shoot in the primary occasion in Tokyo, younger Tomar has been chosen as one of many workforce’s many reserves.
Apoorvi Chandela and Elavanil Valarivan can be taking pictures within the ladies’s 10m air rifle MQS together with 12 different shooters.
While Abhishek Verma and Saurabh Chaudhary will take a look at themselves with 9 different shooters from totally different nations within the males’s 10 air pistol, Manu Bhakar and Yashaswini Singh Deswal can be taking pictures within the ladies’s 10 air pistol with six extra opponents.
India’s 13-member Olympic workforce arrived right here on Saturday from Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, which is the workforce’s coaching base for the Olympics.
Indian shooters will compete solely within the males’s and girls’s particular person Olympic occasions.
Anjum Moudgil can compete in two particular person occasions (ladies’s 10 meter air rifle and 50 meter rifle 3 positions).
Located on the jap fringe of Croatia, Osijek may also host the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup rifle / pistol / shotgun competitors, to be held from 22 June, just a few weeks after the conclusion of the European Championship.
When taking pictures within the MQS part, athletes don’t compete for medals and are subsequently not eligible to qualify for the finals. However, their scores can be utilized for official and rating functions.
A complete of 15 Indian shooters have certified for the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games.
Skeet shooters Mairaj Khan and Angad Bajwa, who’ve additionally certified for the Games, are coaching in Italy.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
