New Delhi [India], June 9 (ANI): Reinforcing India’s rising stature as a worldwide vacation spot for elite capturing coaching, the Gagan Narang Sports Promotion Foundation (GNSPF) lately hosted a 16-member Indonesian capturing squad and two coaches for an intensive three-month high-performance coaching camp throughout its Pune and Hyderabad centres.
Conducted from February 15 to May 15, 2026, the camp featured a few of Indonesia’s main shooters, together with Olympians Diaz Kusumawardani, who represented Indonesia on the London 2012 Olympic Games, and Vidya Rafika Rahmattan Toyyiba, who competed on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The contingent additionally included a number of athletes being thought of for choice to symbolize Indonesia on the Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026.
During their keep, the Indonesian shooters educated extensively alongside India’s elite shooters, gaining invaluable publicity to high-performance environments and aggressive coaching circumstances. The athletes benefited from entry to world-class infrastructure, devoted sports activities science help, superior efficiency evaluation instruments, together with SCATT techniques, and the experience of an achieved teaching group.
The contingent additionally participated within the Khelo India Shooting Championship (KSSM) – twenty fourth Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting Championship, one in every of India’s most prestigious home capturing competitions, which attracted a big subject of rivals and supplied invaluable match expertise in opposition to sturdy opposition.
Speaking on the profitable completion of the camp, Gagan Narang, Founder of the Gagan Narang Sports Promotion Foundation, stated, ‘It has been a privilege to host the Indonesian capturing group during the last three months. High-performance sport thrives on collaboration, data sharing and publicity to totally different coaching environments. We have been delighted to supply the athletes entry to our amenities, teaching experience, sports activities science help and aggressive alternatives. The undeniable fact that athletes making ready for main worldwide occasions select to coach at our centres is a testomony to the ecosystem now we have constructed over time. We consider such exchanges profit not solely the visiting athletes but in addition our Indian shooters, making a tradition of excellence and steady studying. We look ahead to strengthening this relationship and welcoming extra worldwide athletes sooner or later.’
With optimistic outcomes from the programme, each the Indonesian Shooting Association and the Gagan Narang Sports Promotion Foundation are wanting ahead to exploring further coaching camps and collaborative initiatives sooner or later. (ANI)