Shooting teams announced for Commonwealth championships

NEW DELHI - India Saturday announced the teams for different categories for the Commonwealth Shooting Championships from Feb 17-28 at the Karni Singh Shooting Range here.

Shooters from 10 Commonwealth countries will participate in the championships.

To prepare for the event, National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) is organising a camp for Indian shooters at the Karni Singh range.

For shotgun shooters, the camp is from Feb 1 and for rifle pistol shooters, it is starting from Feb 8.

NRAI said all arrangements regarding the boarding, lodging as well as the security of the participating nations, have been made.

“Holding events of such magnitude always tests the organising skills of the hosts but NRAI is fully geared up and will ensure this championship is a huge success both in terms of conduct of the championship and the performance of Indian shooters,” said NRAI secretary general Baljeet Singh Sethi.

“Safety and security of the players is fully ensured.”

NRAI said it is looking forward to a better performance from the shooters.

Teams(men):

50m Rifle 3P: Sanjeev Rajput, Gagan Narang, Imran Hasan Khan.

50m Rifle: Joydeep Karmakar, Gagan Narang, Sushil Ghaley

10m Rifle: Gagan Narang, P.T. Ragunath, Sanjeev Rajput

50m Pistol: Viraj Singh, Bapu Vanzare, Amanpreet Singh

25m Rapid Fire Pistol: Vijay Kumar, Pemba Tamang, Gurpreet Singh

25m Centre Fire Pistol: Vijay Kumar, Mahender Singh, Viraj Singh

25m Standard Pistol: Gurpreet Singh, Samaresh Jung, Vijay Kumar

10m Pistol: Samaresh Jung, Zakir Khan, Omkar Singh

Trap: Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Birendeep Sodhi, Anirudh Singh

Double Trap: Vikram Bhatnagar, Mohd. Ashad, Ajay Mittal

Skeet: Mairaj Ahmed Khan, Arozepal Singh, P.P. Singh

Teams (women):

50m Rifle 3P: Tejaswini Sawant, Lajja Gauswami, Meena

50m Rifle prone: Lajja Gauswami, Tejaswini Sawant, Birmati

10m Rifle: Priya Aggarwal, Tejaswini Sawant, Suma Shirur

25m Pistol: Anisa Sayyed, Annuraj Singh Rahi, Sarnobat

10m Pistol: Shweta Chaudhary, Pushpanjali Rana, Annuraj Singh

Trap: Shreyasi Singh, Shagun Chowdhary, Seema Tomar

Skeet: Arti S. Rao, Rashmee Rathore, Saniya Sheikh