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Rajasthan’s Maheshwari Chauhan has qualified for the Paris Olympics 2024 in women skeet shooting. She clinched a silver medal in skeet shooting in ISSF Final Shotgun Olympic Qualification Championship held in Doha.

Yashaswini Singh Deswal is an Indian sport shooter. She began her training as a pistol shooter in the year 2012. In the year 2017, she set a world junior record of 235.9 in the 10-meter air pistol event and also won the gold medal in the ISSF Junior World Championship in 2017.

The shooters, who are preparing for the ISSF World Cup beginning next month in Delhi, attended a series of workshops and practical training sessions in Ballari, Karnataka

India's young shooters touched another sensational high with Manu Bhaker, Elavenil Valarivan and Divyansh Panwar clinching gold medals in their respective events at the ISSF World Cup Finals in Putian, China

The 17-year-old Manu Bhaker shot 244.7 to claim the top prize in the prestigious season-ending tournament of International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF)

The Indian shooting team returned to the country on Thursday (September 5) after claiming nine medals, including five golds, at the recently-concluded ISSF World Cup in Rio de Janeiro

India finished the ISSF World Cup at the top of the medals tally with five golds, two silver and two bronze

Jasprit Bumrah became only the third Indian bowler to take a Test hat-trick while MS Dhoni was not selected in the T20I team for the home series against South Africa. At the ISSF World Cup, Indian shooters excelled. All this and more in MyNation’s Sportstop weekly review show (August 26 to September 1)

The 22-year-old Yashaswini Singh Deswal, a former junior world champion, recorded 236.7 in the eight-women final of the season's fourth World Cup for pistol and rifle shooters

Abhishek Verma, a part-time lawyer, shot 244.2 in the eight-man final on Thursday, while the 17-year-old Chaudhary's 221.9 was good enough to get him the bronze after five gold medals this year

India now top the Munich World Cup medals tally with three gold. China are second with one gold, one silver and three bronze medals. Rahi Sarnobat clinched her career's second World Cup gold, which helped India win its sixth quota place in shooting for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Security has been heightened in major Indian cities after the IAF bombed terrorist camps across the Line of Control (LOC) in retaliation for the Pulwama terror attack on February 14
 

India were placed third in the medals tally with 11 gold, nine silver and seven bronze medals for a total of 27, making this their best performance in the showpiece.