Back with the Indian team as the chief national rifle coach till June 2025, a tenure that will include the 2024 Paris Olympics, Joydeep Karmakar feels like an "athlete again".
ISSF World Cup: The Indian trio of Olympian Saurabh Chaudhary, Gaurav Rana and Uchaganve Kedarling Balakrishna missed out on a bronze medal in the men's team air pistol event of the ISSF World Cup on Wednesday.
With COVID-19 cases starting to decline across the country, the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) has decided to hold the selection trials for rifle and pistol shooters in March and April this year.
The likes of Olympians Manu Bhaker, Apurvi Chandela, Anjum Moudgil, Abhishek Verma, Deepak Kumar and Yashaswini Deshwal could not find a place in the Indian squad for ISSF World Cup in Cairo as they did not meet the selection criteria.
The Indian shooters failed miserably when it mattered the most and on a stage where they were primed for success, making 2021 one of their worst years in recent memory.
Tokyo Paralympics champion Avani Lekhara took the 'Best Female Debut' accolade at the 2021 Paralympic Sport Awards as announced by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) on Thursday.
Haryana's Sarabjot Singh was crowned the National Champion for the first time in his short career after winning the men's 10m air pistol event while young sensation Saurabh Chaudhary finished fourth.
India's woman pistol ace Manu Bhaker and Iran's reigning Olympic champion Javad Foroughi, won the 10M Air Pistol Mixed Team gold at the ongoing ISSF President's Cup Rifle/Pistol in Wroclaw, Poland.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to congratulate shooters who made the country proud by winning 40 medals at ISSF junior world championship.
Indian athletes bagged all the medals in the four events that took place on the final day of the ISSF Junior World Championship in Lima, Peru, topping the standings with 40 medals.
ISSF Junior World Championship: India ended the event with 30 medals including 13 gold, 11 silver and six bronze. USA finished second with 6 gold, 8 silver and 6 bronze.
ISSF Shooting Junior World Championships: Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar bettered the junior world record in the men's 50m rifle 3 positions final with a score of 463.4.