New Delhi: Competitions for the international shooting season’s first ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun are set to commence in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, and taking aim first-up will be the men’s pistol and the men’s and women’s skeet shooters at the Tiro Federal Argentino de Buenos Aires shooting range, on Thursday.
Three Indians, Saurabh Chaudhary, Ravinder Singh, and Varun Tomar will line up in front of the targets in men’s 10m air pistol on Day One of the competition, which will be the first of 15 finals with a top-class field looking to give their respective countries a golden start to the tournament and the year.
The men’s and women’s Skeet competitions, meanwhile, will have only the first two qualifying rounds comprising 25 targets each played out on Day One.
Over 400 shooters, including a galaxy of reigning and former Olympic and World champions from as many as 45 countries, will compete for 15 gold medals on offer, looking to begin the year on a high. This includes a block of 23 athletes who will be participating as Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN), the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) informed in a release on Tuesday. IANS
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