Navi Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 3 (ANI): India’s promising Air Rifle Shooters will combat it out on the fifteenth Lakshya Cup 2024 ranging from Saturday on the Lakshya Shooting Club at Karnala Sports Academy, Panvel, Navi Mumbai.
The reigning males’s and girls’s nationwide air rifle capturing champions, Shahu Mane, an alumnus of Lakshya Shooting Club, and Ananya Naidu shall be among the many main air rifle shooters from the nation who shall be vying for prime honours on the fifteenth RR Lakshya Cup.
Also that includes shall be Olympians together with Divyansh Singh Panwar, Arjun Babuta and Sandeep Singh.
The premier annual invitational capturing competitors carried out by Lakshya Shooting Club, the brainchild of Olympian, Arjuna Awardee and ‘Dronacharya’ Suma Shirur, has solely grown from energy to energy.
Suma Shirur, High-Performance Director, Lakshya Shooting Club, mentioned, “At RR LAKSHYA Cup, we aim to recognize talent, reward excellence and provide a platform for shooters to showcase their skills at the highest level. This tournament is not just a competition. It’s a celebration of hard work, dedication and the spirit of sportsmanship. It’s a great prospect to see the current national champions square off against each other for the coveted silver trophy. That’s what the Lakshya Cup stands for.”Mahendra Kabra, MD, RR Global, mentioned, “We, at RR Global, value LakshyaShooting Club’s contribution to Indian sport and have been the proud supporters of the RR Lakshya Cup since 2017. Through our CSR partnership with Lakshya Shooting Club led by ‘Dronacharya’ Suma Shirur, we remain committed to supporting the growth of Indian sport.”The RR Lakshya Cup is a top-notch ‘By Invitation Only’ occasion, showcasing the highest 20 Air Rifle shooters of India. It holds the excellence of being the primary competitors of its type to advertise gender equality with women and men competing collectively for the coveted all-silver rotating cup, which is at the moment held by Himanshu Talan of the Indian Army.
As Founder and President of the Club, Suma first mooted the concept women and men ought to shoot equal variety of pictures in a match. And, because the first version of the Lakshya Cup in 2008, this competitors has been following that. The transfer was vindicated when in December 2017, the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) adopted the equal pictures rule for each women and men.
Among the star-studded shooters who have been beforehand seen in motion previously on the world-class capturing vary in Navi Mumbai outfitted with Megalink Electronic Targets embody:1. Odisha-born Shriyanka Sadangi, winner of the thirteenth RR Lakshya Cup 2022, gained the Quota Place for India for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in 50m Rifle 3 Positions.
2. Rudrankksh Patil of Maharashtra, apast ISSF President’s Cup winner and world champion. Patil, winner of the 2021 RR Lakshya Cup version, was a gold medallist on the Cairo World Championships in 2022 and likewise a Paris 2024 Quota place winner for the nation.
3. Divyansh Singh Panwar of Rajasthan, 2018 winner, an OlympianJunior National Champion 20224. Aishwary Pratap Tomar of Madhya Pradesh, an Olympian, a 2019 winner of Lakshya Cup5. Kiran Jadhav from Navy and Lakshya SC trainee, Asian Airgun Championship 2022 silver medallist6. Hriday Hazarika of Assam, a former Junior World Champion7. Ashi Chouksey of Madhya Pradesh, ISSF World Cup 2022 medallist8. Deepak Kumar (2017) and Meghana Sajjanar (2016) are among the many previous winnersLakshya Shooting Club has had the excellence of being a Khelo India-accredited academy since October 2018. The Lakshya Cup, through the years, has additionally offered a super preparatory floor for the shooters going for worldwide and nationwide competitions.
The respective 20182017 winners, Divyansh Singh Panwar of RajasthanDeepak Kumar of Air Force, had gained the Tokyo Olympic Quota locations as did the runner-up in 2017, Anjum Moudgil. The ninth RR Lakshya Cup 2017 Junior gold medal winner, Shahu Mane, went on to win silver on the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires in 2018.
The junior 10m air rifle closing shall be held at 2 pm and shall be adopted by the senior closing at 3.30 pm on Sunday. The prize distribution will start at 5.30 pm.
The visitor of honour for the fifteenth RR Lakshya Cup is Gagan Narang, bronze medal winner on the London Olympics 2012 and the Chef-de-Mission of the Indian contingent on the Paris Olympics 2024. (ANI)