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Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar
Tomar at the 2019 Asian Airgun Championships
Personal information
NationalityIndian
Born (2001-02-03) 3 February 2001 (age 23)
Khargone district, Madhya Pradesh, India
Sport
CountryIndia
SportShooting
Event(s)10 metre air rifle, 50 metre rifle three positions
Coached bySuma Shirur
Medal record
Men's shooting
Representing  India
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Baku 50 m rifle 3 positions team
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2021 New Delhi 50m rifle 3 positions
Silver medal – second place 2021 New Delhi 10m air rifle men's team
Bronze medal – third place 2021 New Delhi 50m rifle 3 positions mixed team
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou 50 m rifle 3 positions team
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Changwon 50 m rifle 3 positions
Silver medal – second place 2023 Changwon 50 m rifle 3 positions team
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Taoyuan Junior 10m air rifle
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Doha 50m rifle 3 positions
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Doha 50m rifle 3 positions team
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Lima 50m rifle 3 positions
Silver medal – second place 2021 Lima 50m rifle 3 positions mixed team
Junior World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2019 Suhl 50m rifle 3 positions
World University Games
Gold medal – first place 2021 Chengdu 10m air rifle
Gold medal – first place 2021 Chengdu 50m rifle 3 positions
Gold medal – first place 2021 Chengdu 10 m air rifle team
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Chengdu 50m rifle 3 positions team
Updated on 5 October 2021

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. He will represent India in his second Olympics at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. He will take part in men's 50m rifle 3 positions event.[1]

Early life

Tomar was born 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.[2][3][4]

Career

Tomar won the bronze medal at the 2019 Asian Airgun Championships in the junior 10 metre air rifle event.[5] 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.[6]

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.[7] He bagged bronze in the team event of the same discipline, along with Chain Singh and Parul Kumar.[8]

Tomar bagged gold at the 2021 ISSF World Cup event in New Delhi with a score of 462.5 in men's 50 metre rifle three positions.[9] He scored 155 points in kneeling and 310.5 in prone before the standing elimination round, and earned qualification for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[9][10]

Tomar clinched gold in 50m Rifle three positions men's event with a new junior world record at the 2021 ISSF Junior World Championships held in Lima, Peru.[11]

Awards

References

  1. ^ Bureau, Sports (17 May 2024). "Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Anjum Moudgil snatch Olympic quota with top fare". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 12 July 2024. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Singh, Ramendra (15 July 2018). "Khargone farmer's son sets new shooting national record". The Times of India. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Asian Airgun C'ships: Shreya breaks world junior record". Sportstar. 1 April 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  6. ^ "Junior World Cup: Aishwarya Singh Tomar creates world record, clinches gold". Sportstar. 19 July 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  7. ^ "Aishwarya Singh Tomar bags India's 13th Olympic quota in shooting". Sportstar. 10 November 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  8. ^ "Teenager Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar Secures India's Record 13th Olympic Quota in Shooting". News18. 10 November 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  9. ^ a b Sen, Rohan (24 March 2021). "Shooting World Cup: Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar wins gold in men's 50M Rifle 3 Positions event". India Today. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  10. ^ Singh, Suhani (30 June 2021). "Hits and misses from India's Olympic-bound shooting continent at ISSF World Cup in Croatia". India Today. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  11. ^ "Aishwary Tomar wins gold, breaks record at shooting Junior World Championships". The Bridge. 5 October 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  12. ^ "Full list of Arjuna Awards Winners 2023". India Today. 9 January 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
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