Manu Bhaker along with Esha Singh will compete in the 10m air pistol and 25m pistol event at the Japan Asian Games starting September.

India’s Paris Olympic Games bronze medallist, Manu Bhaker is among 30-member national shooting squad for Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games starting September 19 in Japan.

Manu Bhaker along with Esha Singh will compete in 10m air pistol and 25m pistol at the Asian Games.

The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) announced the rifle, pistol and shotgun squad on Thursday.

The squads for the ISSF World Cup in Hangzhou, China, next month and the ISSF World Cup Cairo, Egypt in October were also announced.

Esha Singh and Manu Bhaker will be competing in both pistol events while Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil and Vidarsa K. Vinod will be competing in both rifle events. The team for the major event was selected based on NRAI’s selection policy and the national rankings after the recently concluded National Selection Trials 4 in Dehradun, Uttarakhand.

In the 10m Air Pistol men’s event India will be represented by Kedarling Balakrishna Uchaganve, Gaurav and Kamaljeet.

India won a total of 22 medals including seven gold, nine silver and six bronze in the previous edition of the Asian Games to finish second behind China.

Indian squad for the 20^th Asian Games

Men: 10m Air Rifle: Parth Rakesh Mane, Himanshu Dhillon, Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil. 50m Rifle 3P: Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Niraj Kumar, Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil. 10m Air Pistol: Kedarling Balakrishna Uchaganve, Gaurav, Kamaljeet. 25m Rapid Fire Pistol: Anish Bhanwala

Women

10m Air Rifle: Elavenil Valarivan, Sonam Uttam Maskar, Vidarsa K. Vinod. 50m Rifle 3P: Ashi Chouksey, Vidarsa K. Vinod, Tilottama Sen. 10m Air Pistol: Suruchi Inder Singh, Esha Singh, Manu Bhaker. 25m Pistol: Esha Singh, Manu Bhaker, Rahi Sarnobat.

Mixed Team

10m Air Rifle: Parth Rakesh Mane and Elavenil Valarivan. 10m Air Pistol: Suruchi Inder Singh and Kedarling Balakrishna Uchaganve.  

SHOTGUN

Trap Men: Kynan Chenai, Ahvar Rizvi, Shapath Bharadwaj. Trap Women: Neeru Dhanda, Manisha Keer, Aashima Ahlawat. Skeet Men: Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Bhavtegh Singh Gill, Mairaj Ahmad Khan. Skeet Women: Parinaazz Dhaliwal, Raiza Dhillon, Maheshwari Chauhan. Trap Mixed Team: Kynan Chenai, Neeru Dhanda. Skeet Mixed Team: Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Parinaaz Dhaliwal.

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