New Delhi: Ganemat Sekhon, the 22-year-old shotgun exponent to win India’s first skeet medal at a World Cup, and Darsha Rathore have been included in the proposed list of shooters for the ISSF World Championships in Azerbaijan and the Asian Games scheduled in Hangzhou, China from September 23. The third skeet shooter in the women’s category for both major events is Parinaaz Dhaliwal. Ganemat, the first Indian woman skeet shooter to win a medal in the junior World Championships and the first to win a World Cup bronze, had last month added a World Cup silver in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Darsha has made the outing even more memorable, clinching bronze in Almaty, which meant that India had two senior individual medals in women’s skeet at the World Cup for the first time. The men’s skeet team for the Asian Games and World Championships comprises 2014 Asian Championships silver medallist in junior category Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Angad Vir Singh Bajwa and Gurjoat Singh Khan
Mairaj shot 74 out of 75 targets on Day One of the Men s Skeet qualification, putting him in seventh position overall in the 114-strong field. Ganemat, on the other hand, shot 71 to lie 10th in the Women s Skeet qualification. Both
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India's top skeet shooters Mairaj Ahmed Khan and Ganemat Sekhon, made a bright start to their International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun campaign in Doha, Qatar.Mairaj shot 74 out of 75 targets on Day One of the Men's .