Vjay Kumar, Jitu Rai Being Prepared by Army for Rio Olympics

Practice makes perfect and the Indian shooters know it. (Image credit: indianshooting.com)

With one year to go for the Rio Olympics, the Army is helping out the likes of Vijay Kumar, Jitu Rai etc to maximise their skills.

Olympic silver-medallist Vijay Kumar recently trained with Ralf Schumann who is a well known name and three-time Olympic champion in 25m Rapid Fire Pistol.

He was joined by Gurpreet Singh while Jitu Rai, Chain Singh, Hariom Singh and Satyendra Singh trained in the USA.

Both the training camps were funded by the Indian Army.

Vijay Kumar sounded confident ahead of the ISSF World Cup starting from Saturday.

"I am very happy that we could train with the best in the world. It was a great experience to train under Ralf Shumann. Ralf was training us for six hours a day, carefully observing and pointing out our mistakes. We made a lot of corrections with his help," he said in an exclusive interview to indianshooting.com.

This was Vijay's first training stint with Schumann who has competed against him at several shooting competitions including London Olympics in 2012.

"This was the best training camp for me so far and am ready up for the World Cup ahead. I have shot with him at many shooting competitions. He is an excellent coach and since he was shooting himself till 2012, he is updated with all the new rules of our event. He is world's best and the most consistent shooter over so many years," he added.