India to go all out in shotgun world meet
August 31, 2017
India will field a full-fledged 30-member squad for the Shotgun World Championship to be staged in Moscow from Thursday.
With half the number competing in junior events, India will have three shooters each in the three disciplines of trap, double trap, skeet for men and women.
For the first time, the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) in collaboration with the organisers and the European Broadcasting Union has made arrangements for live telecast of the competition all over the world.
The ISSF ‘live stream’ channel apart from its facebook page will provide free coverage of all finals.
The team: Trap: Men: Kynan Chenai, Zoravar Singh Sandhu, Birendeep Sodhi.
Juniors: Lakshay, Manavaditya Singh Rathore, Akash Saharan. Women: Rajeshwari Kumari, Shreyasi Singh, Seema Tomar. Juniors: Soumya Gupta, Manisha Keer, Nivetha Nenthirasigamani.
Double trap: Men: Sangram Dahiya, Ankur Mittal, Mohd. Asab.
Juniors: Shapath Bharadwaj, Ahvar Rizvi, Shardul Vihan.
Skeet: Men: Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Sheeraz Sheikh.
Juniors: Arjun Singh Mann, Anant Jeet Singh Naruka, Hamza Sheikh.
Women: Maheshwari Chauhan, Rashmmi Rathore, Saniya Sheikh.
Juniors: Simranpreet Kaur, Areeba Khan, Ganemat Sekhon.
