India's Olympic moments: Army man Rathore shoots silver
In our build up to the Rio 2016 Olympics, we take a look at the glorious Indian moments at the Summer Games over the years. Here is a look at Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore's silver medal in the men's...
View ArticleRio 2016 | Shooting preview: Jitu Rai to open India's medal campaign
--> Fri, 5 Aug 2016-03:30pm , Rio de Janeiro , PTI Success in shooting will be key to India's hopes of surpassing London Olympics' six-medal haul. A star-studded Indian shooting contingent will...
View ArticleJitu opens Indian shooters campaign at Rio
RIO DE JANEIROL: A star-studded Indian shooting contingent will begin their Rio Olympics campaign on Saturday with in-form Jitu Rai hoping to launch the country's medal haul in an event which will also...
View ArticleShooting: Rajyavardhan Rathores's son Manavaditya wins bronze in Junior World...
New Delhi, July 24: Promising Indian shooter Manavaditya Rathore today won the trap bronze medal in the 'Champion of Champions' match at the Junior World Cup in Porpetto, Italy. While Manavaditya, son...
View ArticleManavaditya Rathore wins bronze at Junior World Cup
NEW DELHI: Promising Indian shooter Manavaditya Rathore on Sunday won the trap bronze medal in the 'Champion of Champions' match at...
View ArticleWhy Rathore's Athens medal has not led to more shotgun glory?
PUNE: It has been 11 years since Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won India's first Olympic shooting medal at Athens Games. Since then, India has won three more medals at the Olympics Games, but none in...
View ArticlePM Modi leads country's praise of Indian hockey team
NEW DELHI: From Prime Minister Narendra Modi to eminent sports personalities, the country was wholesome in its praise for the Indian hockey team's gutsy effort that saw it clinch a historic silver...
View ArticleIndian skeet has come of age
Skeet has come of age in Indian shooting. There was no place to stand, let alone finding a seat, when the 17-year-old Anant Jeet Singh Naruka won the men’s skeet gold in the National shotgun...
View ArticleBindra-led panel to monitor two national camps: NRAI
NEW DELHI: In a departure from practice, the National Rifle Association of India, which is aiming to restore the sanctity of national camps, will let the Abhinav Bindra-led Rio Games review panel to...
View ArticleIndian shooters finish second in Junior World Cup with 24 medals
Gabala: Lakshaya and Kismat Chopra and Manavaditya Singh Rathore on Thursday bagged the team bronze in the Men’s Trap event as India ended their campaign at the International Shooting Sport Federation...
View ArticleRajyavardhan Singh Rathore pats SAI on its back, but says it needs to do lot...
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore clinched a silver medal in double trap shooting event at the 2004 Athens Olympics. (Source: PTI) Olympic silver medallist and Union Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on...
View ArticleChampion Indian shooters primed to come out firing
Indian shooters are poised for a striking performance in Rio! Having won four medals in the last three Olympics, out of the 12 that Indian athletes have accounted for since Leander Paes’s tennis bronze...
View ArticleRathore pats SAI on its back, but says it needs to do lot more
New Delhi, Jul 4 () Olympic silver medallist and Union Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore today complimented the Sports Authority of India for its developmental works but at the same time asked it to...
View ArticleOAI eyes welfare of past & present Olympians
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) With the aim to look after the welfare of past and current athletes, the Olympics Association of India (OAI) was on Monday launched by former Olympic silver medallist and...
View ArticleRathore’s son rises Al Ain: Manavaditya Rathore, son of Olympic silver...
Al Ain: Manavaditya Rathore, son of Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan, Tuesday clinched the gold medal in junior men’s trap at the 4th Asian Shotgun Championships. This was India’s third gold in...
View ArticleManavaditya Rathore shoots gold at Asian Championships
Manavaditya Rathore, son of Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Rathore, on Tuesday clinched the gold medal in junior men’s trap at the 4th Asian Shotgun Championships. Rathore shot 114 out of 125 to...
View ArticleWho will emulate Bindra at Rio's ranges?
Some of the country's top medal contenders will be in action during the opening weekend. Apurvi Chandela, Ayonika Paul, Jitu Rai and Gurpreet Singh will be first up on Day 1 vying for honours in the...
View ArticleRise of young brigade marks year 2015 for shooting
NEW DELHI: Grounded in obscurity for long, India's young shooters and exponents of skeet shooting came of age with eye-catching performances at home as well as on foreign shores in a year when seven...
View ArticleIndian shooters continue medal-winning spree at Junior World Cup
GABALA (Azerbaijan): The Indian junior shooting squad continued its medal-winning spree at the ISSF Junior World Cup, bagging a gold, two silver and three bronze medals on the second day to take its...
View ArticleRajyavardhan Rathore pats SAI on its back, but says it needs to do lot more
NEW DELHI: Olympic silver medallist and Union Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Monday complimented the Sports Authority of India for its developmental works but at the same time asked it to do a...
View ArticleJunior World Cup closes with Australia’s Wallace claiming the Trap Men Gold,...
(Source: ISSF - International Shooting Sport Federation) Jack Wallace of Australia beat Italy's Simone D'Ambrosio in the Gold medal match of the Trap Men Junior, the conclusive event of the ISSF Junior...
View ArticleShotgun World championship: Manavaditya misses out
Manavaditya Singh Rathore shot 113 and missed the junior men’s trap final by one point in the Shotgun World championship in Lonato, Italy. The 16-year-old son of Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan...
View ArticleIndian shooters finish second in Junior World Cup
GABALA: Lakshaya and Kismat Chopra and Manavaditya Singh Rathore bagged the team bronze in the Men's Trap event as India ended their campaign at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF)...
View ArticleRajyavardhan Singh Rathore's son Manavaditya, Kirti shine in Europe
Continuing their impressive run in international competitions, India's junior shooting squad, including Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore's son Manavaditya, returned with an...
View ArticleChip of the old block: Rajyavardhan Rathore's son follows father, wins gold...
--> Manavaditya Rathore was a part of the junior Indian contingent which returns with a total of 11 medals to their name. Continuing their impressive run in international competitions, India's...
View ArticleManavaditya Rathore, Kirti shine in Europe
New Delhi, May 29 () Continuing their impressive run in international competitions, India's junior shooting squad, including Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore's son Manavaditya,...
View ArticleAbhinav Bindra says goodbye in bad year for seniors, youngsters shine
NEW DELHI: Perfectionist Abhinav Bindra walked into the sunset after a glorious career but, in an unfortunate coincidence, dark clouds hovered over a house in disorder after the Indian shooting team...
View ArticleManavjit beats Raninder for gold
He has won the title numerous times, but this was special as the former World champion Manavjit Singh Sandhu beat Raninder Singh, the president of the National Rifle Association of India, 14-13 for...
View ArticleNational Shooting Championship: Shreyasi wins double trap, Rashmee crowned...
JAIPUR: Bihar's Shreyasi Singh reclaimed the women's double trap title with a facile victory over ONGC's Shagun Chowdhary, while Rashmee Rathore of Andhra bagged the gold medal in skeet event on day...
View Article14-yr-old boy makes India proud at int’l shooting championship
Meerut: The youngest participant of 13th International Grandprix Junior Shooting championship held at Porpetto in Italy, Shapath Bharadwaj (14) from Meerut, has made the entire country proud by winning...
View ArticleTime for shooters to rewrite the script
Shooting has been the back bone of Indian sports ever since Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won the silver in the Athens Olympics in 2004. It will be no exception this time at the Asian Games in Incheon....
View ArticleZoravar sustains good run
Zoravar Singh Sandhu sustained his good run and managed to stay ahead of the pack, even though he faltered with a fourth round of 22, in the men’s trap event in the 60th National shotgun championship...
View ArticleAn array of potential champions emerge
Indian shooting is calling the shots, not just in the world of sports! Ten years after winning the country’s first individual silver medal, at the Athens Olympics, Col. Rajyavardhan Rathore has moved...
View ArticleRathore jr wins gold at Asian Shotgun Championships
Manavaditya Rathore, son of Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Rathore, today clinched the gold...
View ArticleChenai clinches gold
Darius Chenai defied the odds and a strong field to clinch the men’s trap gold in the 59th National shotgun championship at the JDA range here on Sunday. In an unimaginable climax, the 53-year-old...
View ArticleManavjit traps gold at National Shooting Championship
Jaipur, Nov 19 (IANS) Former World Champion Manavjit Singh Sandhu was crowned champion in the mens Trap event at the ongoing 60th National Shooting Championship Competitions (NSCC) for Shotgun here on...
View ArticleJunior WC: Shooters add six more medals to tally
PUNE: India's medal hunt in the ISSF Junior (U-21) World Cup continued on Day Two as the junior shooters added six more medals to take their tally to 13 in Gabala, Azerbaijan, on Monday. India are...
View ArticleIndia's Mittal wins gold at Asian Shotgun Championship
AL AIN: India's impressive run at the 4th Asian Shotgun Championship continued as Ankur Mittal clinched the gold medal in men's double trap event, giving the country its fourth yellow metal in the...
View ArticleAbhinav Bindra's experience will benefit young: Rajyavardhan Rathore
COIMBATORE: Hailing ace shooter Abhinav Bindra, Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh...
View ArticleRio Olympics: Indian shooting’s first medal-less Games since 2000
NEW DELHI: After medals at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics, Indian shooting closed out the 2016 Rio Games without a single medal. It is now what was widely expected after two medals in London four...
View ArticleOlympians Association of India launched
NEW DELHI: In the presence of sporting legends, the Olympians Association of India (OAI) was launched on Monday with an aim to look after the welfare of former and current athletes from across the...
View ArticleManavaditya Rathore wins gold at Asian Shotgun Championships
AL AIN: ManavadityaRathore, son of Olympic silver medallistRajyavardhanRathore, today clinched the gold medal in junior men's trap at the 4th Asian Shotgun Championships here today. This was India's...
View ArticleVictory for Jeet in skeet
Anant Jeet Singh Naruka beat Asian champion Man Singh and Olympic quota winner Mairaj Ahmad Khan, two of the best skeet shooters in the country, en route to the gold in the 59th National shotgun...
View ArticleAnantjeet wins 2 golds at Junior Shotgun Cup in Finland
NEW DELHI: Young marksman Anantjeet Naruka emerged as the country's star performer by winning an individual gold medal apart from a team gold as India returned with four medals from the 7th...
View ArticleManavaditya misses bronze
A brave performance by Manavaditya Rathore proved inadequate as he missed the bronze medal after having been in a shoot-off to fight for the gold in the Junior World Cup shooting...
View ArticleCan read sportspersons mind thanks to shooting career: Rathore
NEW DELHI: Union minister and Olympic medallist Rajyavardhan Rathore today emphasised on the value of mental strength in sporting arena and said his shooting career has given him the ability to gauge...
View ArticleAnantjeet wins bronze in skeet event at 2nd ISSF Junior Cup
NEW DELHI: Promising 17-year-old skeet shooter Anantjeet Singh Naruka held his own in a...
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