our shooting stars
Meghana Sajjanar
A computer science engineer by qualification, entered the national foray in 2008 and has taken giant and rapid steps in the sport since. She has taken part in the national level for about 8 times. In December 2016, she bagged gold at the Nationals. The next month, she aced the selection trials, held for the World Cup. She also took part in the international level competition, ‘InterShoot’ in Netherlands. She won three gold medals individually and another gold with her team. The highlight is that, these came on three consecutive days. Meghana also has the distinction of having shot the perfect score of 400/400 at the state meet.
Apurvi Chandela
She is the first Indian shooter to qualify for the 2020 Olympics. She won the gold medal and set a world record in the 2019 ISSF World Cup in New Delhi. In 2014, she won four medals at the InterShoot Championships at The Hague, that included two individual and two team medals. In the same year, she won the gold medal in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, having scored 206.7 points in final, in the process creating a new games record. Apurvi qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics in the women’s 10m air rifle event, where she finished at 34th position in the qualification round out of 51 contestants.
NIRAJ KUMAR
Indian Navy’s Niraj Kumar won Gold medal ISSF World Championship 2023, Baku & Silver in 50mtr NATIONAL GAMES 2023
Avani Lekhara
Lekhara is the first Indian woman to win a Paralympic gold medal. Lekhara also won India’s first gold medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. With a score of 249.6 points in the final event, the young shooter set a Paralympic record and tied the world record. As of January 2023, Lekhara is ranked world no. 1 in Women’s 10m Air Rifle standing SH1 (World Shooting Para Sport Rankings) and has competed in the 2018 Asian Para Games.
SINDHU VIJAY
Youngest Girl In The Indian Team, 2017
Trains with us at Elite Shooting Academy
Tejas Krishna Prasad
Contestant in the 10m Air Rifle events at the Championships. He bagged a bronze in the National Championships (Junior), 2016 held at New Delhi. He stood 11th in the World Championship (Junior), 2016, in Azerbaijan, while he stood 14th at the Asian Championship (Junior), 2016 at Tehran, Iran. He currently is pursuing his third year in undergraduate engineering.
Sriharsha R Devaraddi
An Astute parashooter, he was awarded Gold medal at Karnataka State Level Championship, organised by Karnataka State Rifle Association, Aug 2017. He also won the Bronze medal in National Para shooting, organised by National Rifle association, 2017-2018. He is the winner of two Silver medals in National Shooting Championship held at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, organised by National Rifle Association 2018-2019 as well as two Silver medals in IWAS World Game 2019 scheduled at Sharjah UAE during Feb 2019.