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| Nationality | Indian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 February 2001 Ratanpur, Khargone district, Madhya Pradesh, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 10 metre air rifle, 50 metre rifle three positions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Suma Shirur | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (born 3 February 2001) is an Indian sport shooter. He won the bronze medal in the 50 metre rifle three positions event at the 2019 Asian Shooting Championships and secured a quota place for India at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Early life
Tomar was born on 3 February 2001 in Ratanpur village, Khargone district, Madhya Pradesh, into a family of farmers, as the youngest of three children. He often went hunting with his father Veer Bahadur, a landlord, and learned about sport shooting from his cousin Navdeep Singh Rathore. Tomar started to receive training in 2015 at the Madhya Pradesh Shooting Academy in Bhopal.[1][2][3]
Career
The 20 years old scored a total of 462.5 points and clinch the top spot on the podium at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range where he bagged the Gold.[4] He scored 155 points in kneeling and 310.5 in prone before the standing elimination round, and earned the ticket for Tokyo Olympics.[4] In the ISSF World Cup in Croatia, Tomar made it to the finals of two events in 10m air rifle and 50m rifle three position. He finished seventh in the individual finals and sixth in his favoured 50m event.[5]
Tomar won the bronze medal at the 2019 Asian Airgun Championships in the junior 10 metre air rifle event.[6] At the 2019 ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl, Tomar set the junior world record in the 50 metre rifle three positions with a score of 459.3 and won the gold medal.[7]
Tomar won the bronze medal in 50 metre rifle three positions at the 2019 Asian Shooting Championships in Doha, scoring 449.1 in the final. He thus secured India's second 2020 Summer Olympics quota place in the event and 13th overall in shooting.[8] He bagged bronze in the team event of the same discipline, along with Chain Singh and Parul Kumar.[9]
Awards and Honors
- 2019: Eklavya Award (Highest Sporting honor given by the State Government to Junior Athletes) by Government of Madhya Pradesh on the occasion of National Sports Day
References
- ↑ Pandey, Shubham (20 July 2019). "ISSF Junior World Cup: Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar, the calm and happy shooter from Khargone who clinched gold". Firstpost. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ↑ Singh, Ramendra (15 July 2018). "Khargone farmer's son sets new shooting national record". The Times of India. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ↑ Sharma, Nitin (20 July 2019). "Junior Shooting World Cup: Aishwarya Tomar takes bed-time shikaar tales literally, goes for medal hunt in Germany". The Indian Express. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Sen, Rohan (March 24, 2021). "Shooting World Cup: Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar wins gold in men's 50M Rifle 3 Positions event". India Today. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
- ↑ Singh, Suhani (June 30, 2021). "Hits and misses from India's Olympic-bound shooting continent at ISSF World Cup in Croatia". India Today. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
- ↑ "Asian Airgun C'ships: Shreya breaks world junior record". Sportstar. 1 April 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ↑ "Junior World Cup: Aishwarya Singh Tomar creates world record, clinches gold". Sportstar. 19 July 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ↑ "Aishwarya Singh Tomar bags India's 13th Olympic quota in shooting". Sportstar. 10 November 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ↑ "Teenager Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar Secures India's Record 13th Olympic Quota in Shooting". News18. 10 November 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019.