Shooters renew Olympics quota quest in Rio

Rio de Janeiro, August 27

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India’s rifle and pistol shooters will renew their quest for the 2020 Olympics quotas in the year’s fourth World Cup, which begins here tomorrow. A total of 16 quota places for Tokyo will be up for grabs in the eight individual events. A few comebacks and a few new faces maybe in focus as India look to add to the seven quotas they have won so far across the two disciplines.

On the first day of competition, setting the ball rolling will be world No. 1 Apurvi Chandela and world No. 2 Anjum Moudgil, who have already secured quotas in the women’s 10m air rifle.

This is one of the two events — the other being the men’s 10m air pistol — in which India will only be fighting for medals, having already got the maximum possible ‘two berths per event per country’. Elavenil Valarivan, the decorated junior shooter, will restart her search for a first senior World Cup medal in the same event as India’s third entry.

The qualification rounds for the men’s 50m rifle 3 positions and the women’s 25m pistol are also slated to begin on Wednesday, with the women’s air rifle being the only final of the day. — PTI

Booked quotas 

• Apurvi Chandela (10m air rifle women)
• Anjum Moudgil (10m air rifle women)
• Rahi Sarnobat (25m pistol women) 
• Manu Bhaker (10m air pistol women)
• Saurabh Chaudhary (10m air pistol men)
• Abhishek Verma (10m air pistol men)
• Divyansh Singh Panwar (10m air rifle men)