Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar

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.

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar
Tomar at the 2019 Asian Airgun Championships
Personal information
NationalityIndian
Born (2001-02-03) 3 February 2001
Ratanpur, Khargone district, Madhya Pradesh, India
Sport
SportShooting
Event(s)10 metre air rifle, 50 metre rifle three positions
Medal record
Men's shooting
Representing  India
Asian Shooting Championships
2019 Doha50m rifle 3 positions
2019 Doha50m rifle 3 positions team
ISSF Junior World Cup
2019 Suhl50m rifle 3 positions
Asian Airgun Championships
2019 TaoyuanJunior 10m air rifle
Updated on 10 November 2019.

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

Tomar won the bronze medal at the 2019 Asian Airgun Championships in the junior 10 metre air rifle event.[4] 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.[5]

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.[6] He bagged bronze in the team event of the same discipline, along with Chain Singh and Parul Kumar.[7]

References
  1. 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.
  2. Singh, Ramendra (15 July 2018). "Khargone farmer's son sets new shooting national record". The Times of India. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  3. 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. "Asian Airgun C'ships: Shreya breaks world junior record". Sportstar. 1 April 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  5. "Junior World Cup: Aishwarya Singh Tomar creates world record, clinches gold". Sportstar. 19 July 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  6. "Aishwarya Singh Tomar bags India's 13th Olympic quota in shooting". Sportstar. 10 November 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  7. "Teenager Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar Secures India's Record 13th Olympic Quota in Shooting". News18. 10 November 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
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