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Indian Female Shooters
Indian Female Shooters are reflecting their best records in national and international shooting competitions.

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Indian Female ShootersIndian Female Shooters include Anjali Bhagwat, Apurvi Singh Chandela, Shweta Chaudhry, Shagun Chowdhary, Deepali Deshpande and many more.

Anjali Mandar Bhagwat
Anjali Bhagwat is a professional Indian shooter. She became the World Number One in 10m Air Rifle in 2002. She also won her first World Cup Final in Milan, in 2003, with a score of 399/400.

Apurvi Singh Chandela
Apurvi Singh Chandela is an Indian shooter who competes in the 10 meters air rifle event. She won the gold medal in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

Shweta Chaudhry
Shweta Chaudhry is an Indian shooter who competes in the 10 meters air pistol and 25 meters sports pistol events

Shagun Chowdhary
Shagun Chowdhary is an Indian shooter from Jaipur in Rajasthan. Shagun Chowdhary finished in 20th place in the trap shooting event at the 2012 Summer Olympics taking place in London.

Deepali Deshpande
Deepali Deshpande is an Indian sport shooter. Deepali Deshpande won a silver medal in rifle shooting at the 2004 Asian Shooting Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and was selected to compete for India at the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing nineteenth in the rifle three positions. Deepali Deshpande also served throughout her sporting career as a member of the Indian Shooting Federation under her coaches Laszlo Szucsak and Sunny Thomas

Lajja Gauswami
Lajja Gauswami is an Indian woman shooter. She won the silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Pooka Ghatkar
Indian Female ShootersPooka Ghatkar is an Indian professional sports shooter. She competes in the women`s 10 meter air rifle event.

Malaika Goel
Malaika Goel is an Indian shooter. She won the silver medal in the Women`s 10m Air Pistol competition at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland

Pooka Ghatkar
Pooka Ghatkar is an Indian professional sports shooter. She competes in the women`s 10 meter air rifle event.

Saroja Kumari Jhuthu
Saroja Kumari Jhuthu is an Indian Shooter. She won the gold medal in the Women`s 25m Pistol (Pairs) with Sushma Rana at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Anuja Jung
Anuja Jung is an Indian Shooter. She won the gold medal in the Women`s 50m Rifle 3 Positions and the silver medal in Women`s 50m Rifle 3 Positions (Pairs) with Anjali Bhagwat at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Elizabeth Susan Koshy
Elizabeth Susan Koshy is an Indian shooter from Kerala. She made her international debut at the Junior meet in Germany in 2011 in which the Indian team was in sixth place. Koshy won five gold medals in Thiruvananthapuram at the State championship in the same year.

Bhuvaneshwari Kumari
Bhuvaneshwari Kumari is hailing from Kota District of Rajasthan. She is a distinguished sportswoman of India and a champion in trap shooting. She was awarded Arjuna Award in 1969.

Meena Kumari
Meena Kumari is an Indian shooter. She along with T Sawant won bronze medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. She is from Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh.

Maharajkumari Rajyashree Kumari
Maharajkumari Rajyashree Kumari is a former shooter from India. She was conferred the Arjuna Award in shooting in 1968.

Kavita Yadav
Indian Female ShootersKavita Yadav is an Indian woman sport shooter who won the bronze medal in Women`s 10 m Air Rifle (Pairs) in 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Varsha Varman
Varsha Varman is a professional Indian sport shooter and a member of the Indian Shooting Team. She is currently studying at Harvard University in the United States. She won the bronze medal for India at the 2014 Asian Games at Incheon in the Women`s Double Trap team event.

Chandro Tomar
Chandro Tomar is an octogenarian and sharp shooter from the village of Johri in the Bagpat district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Shreyasi Singh
Shreyasi Singh is an Indian shooter who competes in the double trap event. She won a silver medal in the same event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland

Annu Raj Singh
Annu Raj Singh is an Indian shooter from Aligarh. She along with Heena Sidhu won the gold medal in women`s Pairs 10 meters air pistol at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in both the 10 meters air pistol and the 25 meters pistol.

Suma Shirur
Suma Shirur is a former Indian shooter who competed in the 10 meters air rifle event. She is a joint world record holder in the event, having scored the maximum of 400 points in the qualification round, which she achieved at the 2004 Asian Shooting Championships in Kuala Lumpur.

Anisa Sayyed
Anisa Sayyed is an Indian female pistol shooter who won two gold medals in 2010 Commonwealth Games. She also won a gold medal at the SAF games in 2006. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, she won a silver in the 25 m event.

Tejaswini Sawant
Tejaswini Sawant is an Indian shooter from the Maharashtrian city of Kolhapur, Maharashtra. She belongs to a Maratha family. Her father Ravindra Sawant was an officer in the Indian Navy.

Sushma Rana
Sushma Rana is a professional Indian shooter. She competes in 25-metres shooting events. She is the younger sister of Jaspal Rana.

Sonia Rai
Sonia Rai was born in Himachal Pradesh and brought up in Kangra. She is an Indian shooter, the first Indian pistol shooter to win a World Cup medal in WC Resende, Brazil in 2006.


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