Shooters in India have given birth to a fresh new class of sports icons for the country. Shooters in India have blazed the shooting ranges to come home with a tally of more than 50 medals in Commonwealth, Asiads and Olympics.
Harihar Banerjee
Harihar Banerjee was an Indian sports shooter. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics and 1956 Summer Olympics.
Anjali 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.
Maharaja Bhim Singh II
Maharaja Bhim Singh II was the last ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Kotah from 1940 to 1947.
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.
Prithipal Chatterjee
Prithipal Chatterjee is an Indian former sports shooter. He competed in the 50-metre rifle, prone event at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Kynan Chenai
Kynan Chenai was born on 29th January in the year 1991, in Hyderabad in the Indian state of Telangana. He is an Indian shooter in the Trap discipline. He competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics having won the Asia Olympic Shooting qualifiers held in Delhi on 28th January 2016.
Roy Choudhury
Roy Choudhury is an Indian former sports shooter. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Souren Choudhury
Souren Choudhury was an Indian sports shooter. He competed in the 50 m rifle, prone event at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Shagun Chowdhary
Shagun Chowdhary was born in the year 1983. He is an Indian shooter from Jaipur, Rajasthan. Shagun Chowdhary finished in 20th place in the trap shooting event at the 2012 Summer Olympics taking place in London. The Olympic Gold Quest supports Shagun Chowdhary.
Deepali Deshpande
Deepali Deshpande is an Indian sport shooter hailing from Mumbai, Maharashtra. She 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.
Samaresh Jung
Samaresh Jung is an Indian sports shooter. He is an air pistol specialist. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, he won two gold medals, in the men`s free pistol pairs and in the open event of 25m standard pistol pairs, both in partnership with Jaspal Rana.
Joydeep Karmakar
Joydeep Karmakar is hailing from Kolkata, West Bengal. He is an Indian shooter. He became a Junior National Champion in his first Nationals in 1994. He qualified to represent India at 2012 Summer Olympics in Men`s 50m Rifle Prone event.
Sen Keshav
Sen Keshav is an Indian former sports shooter. He competed in the trap event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Mairaj Ahmed Khan
Mairaj Ahmed Khan is an Indian shooter in the shotgun skeet discipline. He won the Olympics quota in the Shotgun Skeet Event in Lonato, Italy in September 2015, the first Indian to qualify in this particular discipline. In 2016, he won silver at ISSF World Cup held in April in Rio de Janeiro, the host country for 2016 Olympics.
Subedar Major Vijay Kumar
Subedar Major Vijay Kumar is a sport shooter from India. He won the silver medal in the individual 25 meters rapid fire pistol event at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Prakash Nanjappa
Prakash Nanjappa is an Indian shooter who competes in the 10 meters air pistol and 50 meters pistol events. He was the only Indian to win a medal in the 2013 ISSF World Cup, when he won bronze in 10 meter air pistol event in Changwon, South Korea.
Gagan Narang
Gagan Narang is an Indian shooter, in Air rifle shooting, supported by the Olympic Gold Quest. He was the first Indian to qualify for the London Olympics. He won the Bronze Medal in the Men`s 10 m Air Rifle Event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with a final score of 701.1 on 30 July 2012.
Ayonika Paul
Ayonika Paul is an Indian shooter who competes in the 10 meter air rifle event.
Jitu Rai
Jitu Rai is a Nepali Bhasi Indian shooter of Indian Gorkha ethnic group who competes in the 10 meters air pistol and 50 meters pistol events. Government of India announced Khel Ratna Award for him in 2016.
Sanjeev Rajput
Sanjeev Rajput is an Arjuna Awardee Indian shooter from Yamuna Nagar District in Haryana.
Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore is an Indian politician and a former professional shooter. As a shooter, competing in the double trap event, he won a silver medal in the 2004 Olympic Games.
Manavjit Singh Sandhu
Manavjit Singh Sandhu is an Indian sport shooter who specializes in trap shooting. He is a Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awardee in 2006 and Arjuna Awardee in 1998.
Rahi Jeevan Sarnobat
Rahi Jeevan Sarnobat is a female athlete from India who competes in the event of 25 meters pistol shooting.
Haricharan Shaw
Haricharan Shaw is an Indian former sports shooter. He competed in the 50 meters rifle, three positions event at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Rahi Jeevan Sarnobat
Rahi Jeevan Sarnobat is a female athlete from India who competes in the event of 25 meters pistol shooting.
Avneet Kaur Sidhu
Avneet Kaur Sidhu is an Indian shooter. She won the gold medal in the Women`s 10m Air Rifle (Pairs) with Tejaswini Sawant at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Heena Sidhu
Heena Sidhu is an Indian sport shooter. She is the first Indian Pistol shooter to be Ranked World No.1 by ISSF.
Chain Singh
Chain Singh is an Indian sports shooter. He won the bronze medal at the 2014 Asian Games at Incheon in the men`s 50m rifle 3 positions event.
Devi Singh
Devi Singh is an Indian former sports shooter. He competed in the trap event at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Gurpreet Singh
Gurpreet Singh is an Indian sports shooter. He won two gold medals in shooting events at the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in India.
Maharaja Karni Singh
Maharaja Karni Singh was born on 21st April in the year 1924. He was also known as Dr Karni Singh. He was from 1950 the last Maharaja of Bikaner State to hold the title of Maharaja of Bikaner, officially, till 1971, when the privy purse and all the royal titles were abolished by the Republic of India. He was an Indian shooter in colonial India.
Mansher Singh
Mansher Singh is hailing from Kolkata, West Bengal. He is an Indian Sport shooter who specializes in double trap and trap.
Paul Cheema Singh
Paul Cheema Singh is an Indian former sports shooter.
Ronjan Sodhi
Ronjan Sodhi is haling from Ferozepur District of Punjab. He is an Indian trap shooter. He won two silver medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and a gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games.
Anwer Sultan
Anwer Sultan is an Indian sports shooter. He competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, in the men`s trap
Raja Randhir Singh
Raja Randhir Singh is a former Olympic-level trap and skeet shooter and now sports administrator. He is a 1979 recipient of the Arjuna Award.
Ravi Kumar
Ravi Kumar is an Indian sport shooter. He won the bronze medal at the 2014 Asian Games at Incheon in the men`s 10m air rifle team event, along with Abhinav Bindra and Sanjeev Rajput.
Subedar (Honorary Captain) Fateh Singh
Subedar (Honorary Captain) Fateh Singh was a retired Indian Army JCO from the 15th Battalion of the Dogra Regiment and sport shooter in modern India.
