12 member teams selected for the final qualifying tournament of Paris Olympics, Shreyasi and Ganemat have last chance
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Commonwealth Games gold medalist Shreyasi Singh, veteran shooter Meraj Ahmed Khan and World Cup winner Ganemat Sekhon were on Tuesday named in the 12-member shotgun team selected to participate in the final qualifying tournament for the Paris Olympics to be held in Doha from April 19 to 29. Chosen.
The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) announced the squads for several important international competitions ahead of the Olympics to be held in July-August. There will be four quotas at stake in this competition to be held in Doha, which will include one quota each for men’s and women’s teams in trap and skeet. Shooters who have achieved the quota have been kept out of the tournament.
Three teams were announced which included Prithviraj Tondaiman and Vivaan Kapoor in men’s trap while Shreyasi and Manisha Keer for women’s trap and Meraj and Sheeraj Shaikh are regular shooters featuring in men’s skeet and Ganemat and Maheshwari Chauhan in women’s skeet.
Zorawar Sandhu in men’s trap competition, Neeru in women’s trap, Angad Bajwa in men’s skeet and Areeba Khan in women’s skeet will also get a chance to achieve Paris quota. India has so far secured 19 quotas for the Paris Olympics. The shotgun team has secured the highest number of quotas (four) for the Olympics so far.
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