Chinki Yadav

2021-08-02T17:26:37Z

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{{short description|Indian sport shooter}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
|name=Chinki Yadav
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|birth_date= {{birth date and age|1997|11|26|df=y}}
|birth_place=[[Bhopal]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], India<ref>{{cite web |title=Chinki YADAV |url=https://www.issf-sports.org/athletes/athlete.ashx?personissfid=SHINDW2611199701 |publisher=ISSF Sports |accessdate=10 November 2019}}</ref>
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|coach= [[Jaspal Rana]]
|sport=[[Shooting sports|Shooting]]
|event = [[25 metre pistol]]
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{{MedalSport| 25 metre pistol [[Shooting sports|shooting]]}}
{{MedalCountry| {{IND}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[ISSF World Cup]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[2021 ISSF World Cup|2021 New Delhi]]|Individual And Team}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[ISSF Junior World Championships]]}}
{{MedalBronze| [[2017 ISSF Junior World Championships|2017 Suhl]]|Team}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[ISSF Junior World Cup]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[2016 ISSF Junior World Cup|2016 Gabala]]|Team}}
{{MedalBronze| [[2016 ISSF Junior World Cup|2016 Suhl]]|Team}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Asian Shooting Championships]]}}
{{MedalBronze| [[2015 Asian Shooting Championships|2015 Kuwait City]]|Junior}}
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'''Chinki Yadav''' is an Indian [[sport shooting|sport shooter]] who competes in the [[25 metre pistol]] event. She secured a quota place for India at the [[2020 Summer Olympics]] by qualifying for the final of the [[2019 Asian Shooting Championships]].

==Early and personal life==
Yadav was born on 26 November 1997 in [[Bhopal]], [[Madhya Pradesh]]. Her family lived in a single-room dormitory<ref>{{cite news |last1=Singh |first1=Ramendra |title=Beating all odds, Chinki Yadav shoots to glory |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/beating-all-odds-chinki-shoots-to-glory/articleshow/59360109.cms |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=The Times of India |date=29 June 2017}}</ref> in the premises of the [[Tatya Tope Nagar Sports Complex]] where her father Mehtab Singh Yadav worked as an electrician. Yadav would accompany her father to the shooting range at the complex and, in 2012, decided to make a career in the sport.<ref name=newindian/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sharma |first1=Nitin |title=Father an electrician at shooting range, daughter wins Olympic quota |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/chinki-yadav-father-an-electrician-at-shooting-range-daughter-wins-olympic-quota-6110660/ |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=The Indian Express |date=9 November 2019}}</ref> While she took up [[pistol]] shooting and trained at the Madhya Pradesh Shooting Academy under [[Jaspal Rana]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Singh |first1=Navneet |last2=Roy |first2=Avishek |title=Daughter of an electrician, Chinki Yadav shoots down Tokyo Olympics berth |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/other-sports/electrician-s-daughter-chinki-yadav-shoots-down-tokyo-olympics-berth/story-4Gxi6oRgxOMbALqlQULdIN.html |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=Hindustan Times}}</ref> her younger brother Rajesh chose [[Shotgun (shooting sports)|shotgun]] but "did not pursue it as seriously as Chinki".<ref name=newindian>{{cite news |last1=Mirza |first1=Firoz |title=One-room house to Olympic quota |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/other/2019/nov/09/one-room-house-to-olympic-quota-2059216.html |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=The New Indian Express |date=9 November 2019}}</ref>

As of 2019, Yadav works as an assistant bank manager.<ref name=newindian/>

==Career==
Yadav won the bronze medal in the junior women's 25 metre pistol event at [[2015 Asian Shooting Championships]] in Kuwait City with a score of 570.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Singh |first1=Ramendra |title=Bhopal's shooter wins bronze in Asian championship |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/shooting/Bhopals-shooter-wins-bronze-in-Asian-championship/articleshow/49664444.cms |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=The Times of India |date=4 November 2015}}</ref> At the [[2016 ISSF Junior World Cup]], Yadav won bronze in the 25 metre pistol team event in Gabala<ref>{{cite news |title=India bag five more medals on day four of Junior Shooting World Cup; take tally to 23 |url=https://zeenews.india.com/sports/others/india-bag-five-more-medals-on-day-four-of-junior-shooting-world-cup-take-tally-to-23_1932034.html |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=Zee News |date=21 September 2016}}</ref> and bronze in the same event at Suhl.<ref>{{cite news |title=India women shooters take bronze at junior World Cup |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/other-sports/story/india-women-shooters-take-bronze-at-junior-world-cup-321818-2016-05-05 |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=India Today |date=5 May 2016}}</ref> She won bronze at the [[2017 ISSF Junior World Championships]] in Suhl in the team event, along with Muskan and Gauri Sheoran.<ref>{{cite news |title=World Shooting Championship: Yashaswini, Anmol strike gold |url=https://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/yashaswini-anmol-strike-gold/article19165681.ece |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=The Hindu |date=28 June 2017}}</ref>

Yadav finished second in the qualification round of [[2019 Asian Shooting Championships]] with a score of 588 and qualified for the final. This performance secured her a quota place for the [[2020 Summer Olympics]] as four of the eight finalists were from countries which had already earned maximum quota places for the event. She came sixth in the final with a score of 116.<ref>{{cite news |title=Shooter Chinki Yadav bags India's 11th Olympic quota |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/shooting/shooter-chinki-yadav-bags-indias-11th-olympic-quota/articleshow/71968932.cms |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=The Times of India |date=8 November 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Kannan |first1=S. |title=Chinki Yadav fires Tokyo quota place |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/other-sports/story/chinki-yadav-fires-tokyo-quota-place-1617295-2019-11-09 |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=India Today |date=9 November 2019}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{ISSF | id=SHINDW2611199701 }}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yadav, Chinki}}
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1997 births]]
[[Category:Indian female sport shooters]]
[[Category:Sport shooters from Madhya Pradesh]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Bhopal]]

M. P. Jabir

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| name = M. P. Jabir
| image = Jabir MP Of India (cropped).jpg
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| caption = Jabir with his [[2017 Asian Athletics Championships]] bronze medal
| fullname = Jabir Madari Pillyalil<ref>{{cite web |title=Jabir Madari Pillyalil |url=https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/india/jabir-madari-pillyalil-314140 |publisher=IAAF |access-date=28 September 2019}}</ref>
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| birth_place = [[Manjeri]],[[Kerala]], India
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| event = [[400 metres hurdles]], [[400 metres]]
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| pb = '''400 metres hurdles:''' 49.13 (Doha 2019) <br>'''400 metres:''' 46.96 (Mladá Boleslav 2019)
| updated = 27 September 2019
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{{Medal|Competition|[[Asian Athletics Championships]]}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[[2017 Asian Athletics Championships|2017 Bhubaneswar]]|[[2017 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles|Men's 400m hurdles]]}}
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'''Jabir Madari Pillyalil''' (born 8 June 1996), better known as '''M. P. Jabir''', is an Indian athlete who specializes in [[400 metres hurdles]] and [[400 metres]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=MP Jabir qualifies for Tokyo Olympics in 400m hurdles|url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/olympics/athletics-mp-jabir-qualifes-for-tokyo-olympics-400m-hurdles/article35083435.ece|access-date=2021-07-03|website=Sportstar|language=en}}</ref>

Jabir won the bronze medal at the [[2017 Asian Athletics Championships]] in [[2017 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles|400 metres hurdles]] with a timing of 50.22 seconds.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rayan |first1=Stan |title=Asian athletics: Sudha brightens the day |url=https://www.thehindu.com/sport/athletics/asian-athletics-sudha-brightens-the-day/article19241645.ece |access-date=28 September 2019|work=The Hindu |date=8 July 2017}}</ref> At the [[2019 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles|same event]] in [[2019 Asian Athletics Championships]] in Doha, he set his personal best timing of 49.13 to win bronze<ref>{{cite news |title=Gomathi runs the race of her life, gives India its first gold at the championships |url=https://www.thehindu.com/sport/athletics/gomathi-runs-the-race-of-her-life-gives-india-its-first-gold-at-the-championships/article26914425.ece |access-date=28 September 2019 |work=The Hindu |date=22 April 2019}}</ref> and achieved the qualification standard for [[2019 World Athletics Championships]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rayan |first1=Stan |title=Gomathi's surprise…and the ones that got away at the Asian Athletics Championships |url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/athletics/asian-athletic-championships-2019-tajinder-singh-toor-gomathi-marimuthu-chitra-shivpal-singh-jabir-murli-kumar-parul-chaudhary-dutee-chand-sanjivani/article26946659.ece |access-date=28 September 2019 |work=Sportstar |date=25 April 2019}}</ref>

Jabir became the first Indian male athlete to qualify for the 400m hurdles in [[Olympic Games|Olympics]], after earning qualification for the event in the [[2020 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 1, 2021|title=Tokyo 2020: Indian Navy’s MP Jabir qualifes for Olympics in 400m hurdles|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/other-sports/story/tokyo-2020-indian-navy-s-mp-jabir-qualifes-for-olympics-in-400m-hurdles-1822755-2021-07-01|access-date=2021-07-26|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref>

Jabir works for the [[Indian Navy]] and is posted at [[Kochi]], as of 2017.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Srinivasan |first1=Aneesh |title=Anu Raghavan and MP Jabir overcome hurdles to clinch titles |url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/other/2017/jul/16/anu-raghavan-and-mp-jabir-overcome-hurdles-to-clinch-titles-1629336.html |access-date=28 September 2019 |work=The New Indian Express |date=16 July 2017}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{iaaf name|id=314140}}

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[[Category:1996 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Indian male hurdlers]]
[[Category:Indian male sprinters]]
[[Category:Athletes from Kerala]]
[[Category:Indian Navy personnel]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic athletes of India]]

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