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Elavenil Valarivan
Elavenil Valarivan (Tamil pronunciation: [ɪɭəʋeːnɪl̪ ʋɑːl̪əɾɪʋən]) is an Indian sport shooter specializing in the 10 m air rifle event. Valarivan has represented India at all major international shooting events, including the World Championships, World Cup, Asian Games, Asian Championships, and the 2020 and 2024 Olympics. She was honored with the Arjuna Award in 2022.
Elizabeth Koshy
Elizabeth Susan Koshy (born May 10, 1994) is an Indian shooter from Kerala.
Esha Singh
Esha Singh (born 1 January 2005) is an Indian sports shooter. She represented India in the women's 25 m pistol event at the 2024 Paris Olympics. At the 2026 ISSF World Cup in Munich, Singh won the women's 25 m pistol gold medal with 43 hits in the final, setting both the senior and junior world records.
Fateh Singh
Subedar (Honorary Captain) Fateh Singh was an Indian Army JCO from the 15th Battalion of the Dogra Regiment and sport shooter. He won gold and silver medal in the big bore individual and team events in the Commonwealth Shooting Championships in 1995 in New Delhi. He was on duty as part of the Defence Security Corps and killed in action during the 2016 Pathankot attack.
Gagan Narang
Gagan Narang (born 6 May 1983) is an Indian sport shooter, supported by the Olympic Gold Quest. 1 on 30 July 2012. He was also a member of prestigious Padma award committee 2023.
Ganemat Sekhon
Ganemat Sekhon (born 29 November 2000) is an Indian skeet shooter. At the 2021 World Cup in New Delhi, Sekhon became the first Indian to win a medal in the women's skeet event of an World Cup.
Gayatri Pawaskar
Gayatri Pawaskar (born 4 September 1999) is the youngest rifle shooter in the list of top 30 in India. Pawaskar he received a gold medal for the Women's Youth Team 10-metre air rifle at the 13th Asian Shooting Championship. She hails from Dadar, Mumbai.
Gurbir Singh Sandhu
Gurbir Singh Sandhu (born 20 February 1951) is an Indian sports shooter. He competed in the mixed skeet event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He also served as the President of the Punjab Rifle Shooting Association and was awarded the Arjuna Award in 2001.
Gurjoat Siingh Khangura
Gurjoat Siingh Khangura (born 12 July 1994) is an Indian sport shooter who competes in the skeet discipline.
Gurpal Singh
Gurpal Singh (born 13 June 1980) is an Indian shooter who won the silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the 50 m pistol event.
Gurpreet Singh
Gurpreet Singh (born 19 December 1987) is an Indian sport shooter who competes in pistol events. He has won multiple titles at the Asian Shooting Championships, and two ISSF World Championship silver medals. He won three medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
Haricharan Shaw
Haricharan Shaw (born 1922) is an Indian former sports shooter. He competed in the 50 metre rifle, three positions event at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Harihar Banerjee
Harihar Banerjee (15 April 1922 - 28 March 1999) was an Indian sports shooter. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics and 1956 Summer Olympics.
Harpreet Singh
Harpreet Singh is an Indian Shooter from Karnal Haryana.
Heena Sidhu
Heena Sidhu (born 29 August 1989) is an Indian sport shooter. On 7 April 2014, Sidhu became the first Indian pistol shooter to reach number one in world rankings by the International Shooting Sport Federation. In 2013, Sidhu became the first Indian pistol shooter to win a gold medal in an ISSF World Cup finals when she won the 10-metre air pistol event.
Imran Hassan Khan
Imran Hasan Khan (born 26 January 1983) is an Indian shooter from Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. He won a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, combining with Gagan Narang to win the pairs 50-metre rifle event. A member of the Indian Army, he has also won medals at the South Asian Games, as well as a bronze medal at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, in the men's 50-metre rifle three positions team event.
Japtyesh Singh Jaspal
Japtyesh Singh Jaspal is an Indian Shooter from Chandigarh who competes in the 25 meter rapid fire pistol and had represented India at the ISSF Junior World Cup 2018(Sydney) and 14th Asian Shooting Championships(Doha). He won the bronze at the ISSF Junior World Cup 2018(Sydney) and 14th Asian Shooting Championships(Doha) in the 25m Rapid Fire Junior Men Team Event.
Jaspal Rana
Jaspal Rana (28 June 1976 – 12 June 2026) was an Indian sport shooter and coach. Rana won numerous medals at international competitions, including the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games, and had been instrumental in shaping India's presence in shooting sports. He remains India’s most successful athlete in Commonwealth Games history, with a remarkable tally of 15 medals—9 gold, 4 silver, and 2 bronze—won across four editions of the Games: 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006.
Jitu Rai
Jitu Rai (born 26 August 1987) is an Indian Army Subedar Major who competes in the 10 metre air pistol and 50 metre pistol events. The Government of India announced the Khel Ratna Award for him in 2016. In 2020, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India.
Joydeep Karmakar
Joydeep Karmakar (Bengali: জয়দীপ কর্মকার; born 7 September 1979) is an Indian sports shooter from Kolkata, West Bengal. Starting his sports career in 1989, he represented India in rifle prone events in various championships. He became a Junior National Champion in his first Nationals in 1994.
Kajal Saini
Kajal Saini (born 31 August 1994) is an Indian sport shooter. She is from Rohtak and represents Haryana. Her coach is Mr.
Kamaljeet
Kamaljeet (born 22 August 2003) is an Indian sport shooter who competes in the 50 m pistol events.
Karni Singh, Crown Prince of Bikaner
Colonel Dr. Maharaja Karni Singh ji (21 April 1924 – 6 September 1988), also known as Dr Karni Singh, was from 1950 the last Maharaja of Bikaner State to hold the title of Maharaja of Bikaner, officially, until 1971, when the privy purse and all the royal titles were abolished by the Republic of India. He was also a politician, serving as a member of the Lok Sabha for twenty-five years, from 1952 to 1977, and an international clay pigeon and skeet champion.
Kavita Yadav
Kavita Yadav (born 1986 in Bangalore) is an Indian woman sport shooter who won the bronze medal in Women's 10 m Air Rifle (Pairs) in 2010 Commonwealth Games. She is from Karnataka.
Kirti Gupta
Kirti Gupta (born 6 February 2001) is an Indian sport shooter. She won a silver medal at the ISSF World Cup shotgun in Cairo in the team trap shooting along with Manisha Keer and Rajeshwari Kumari.
Kunwar Divye Pratap Singh
Kunwar Divye Pratap Singh (born 1996) is an Indian shooter. He won the bronze medal at the 2015 International Junior Shotgun Cup in Finland. At the 2017 Open Shooting Championships in Thailand, he won gold in the senior men's shotgun double trap category.
Kynan Chenai
Kynan Darius Chenai (born 29 January 1991) is an Indian sport shooter specializing in trap shooting. He has represented India in multiple international competitions, including the Olympics and the Asian Games. He competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics, where he finished 19th in the men's trap event.
Lajja Goswami
Lajja Goswami (born 28 September 1988) is an Indian markswoman and policewoman. She is a former National Cadet Corps (NCC) cadet. She won the conferred Raksha Mantri Medal in 2009.
Lakshay Sheoran
Lakshay Sheoran (born 4 November 1998) is an Indian sport shooter. He won silver medal in trap shooting at the 2018 Asian Games.
Lt Col Saroja Kumari Juthu SM
Saroja Kumari Jhuthu (born June 5, 1968) is an Indian sport shooter. She won the gold medal in the Women's 25m Pistol (Pairs) with Sushma Rana at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Maheshwari Chauhan
Maheshwari Chauhan (born 4 July 1996) is an Indian skeet shooter. Chauhan finished 4th in the mixed skeet event at the 2024 Paris Olympics, losing the bronze medal by a point, with a scoreline of 43–44. She also competed in the Women's individual event, placing 14th with a score of 118.
Mahit Sandhu
Mahit Sandhu (born 4 July 2004) is an Indian deaf sports shooter who competes in rifle events. She made her Deaflympic debut at the age of 21 representing India at the 2025 Summer Deaflympics, winning four medals.
Mairaj Ahmad Khan
Mairaj Ahmed Khan (born 2 November 1975, in Khurja) is an Indian skeet shooter and two-time Olympian. Khan was the first Indian skeet shooter to qualify for the Olympics when he qualified for the Rio Olympics in 2015; he also competed in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. He has won gold at the ISSF World Shooting Championships, the Commonwealth Shooting Championships, and the Asian Shooting Championships.
Malaika Goel
Malaika Goel (born 23 October 1997) is an Indian shooter. She won the silver medal in the Women's 10m Air Pistol competition at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. She was the youngest medallist.
Manavjit Singh Sandhu
Manavjit Singh Sandhu (born 3 November 1976) is an Indian sport shooter who specializes in trap shooting. He is a Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awardee in 2006 and Arjuna Awardee in 1998. He is a 4 time Olympian, having represented India at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics, Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics the London 2012 Summer Olympics and the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.
Manish Narwal
Manisha Keer
Manisha Keer is an Indian sport shooter. She won a silver medal at the ISSF World Cup shotgun in Cairo in the team trap shooting along with Kirti Gupta and Rajeshwari Kumari. She won the Silver medal in the Women's trap team event in the 2022 Asian Games.
Mansher Singh
Mansher "Joey" Singh (born 1 December 1965 in Calcutta) is an Indian sport shooter who specializes in double trap and trap. At the 2008 Olympic Games, he finished in first place in the trap qualification. He also came first at the 2004 Olympic Games.
Meena Kumari
Meena Kumari (born 17 July 1983) is an Indian shooter. She is from Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh. She along with Tejaswini Sawant won a bronze medal in at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Meghana Sajjanar
Meghana Sajjanar (born 20 January 1994) is an Indian sport shooter from Karnataka. She specialises in the 10 m air rifle event. She became first women from Karnataka to make it to India's senior shooting team.
Mehuli Ghosh
Mehuli Ghosh (Bengali: মেহুলি ঘোষ; born 20 November 2000) is an Indian sport shooter. She represents India at international junior shooting championships across the world. Among 123 competitors, she was the only Indian shooting athlete to reach the finals of the 2018 junior shooting competition held in the Czech Republic.
Mohammed Asab
Mohammed Asab (born 10 September 1987) is an Indian shooter who competes in the double trap event. and missed his 2nd commonwealth medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, where he secure 4th rank. medals.
Moraad Ali Khan
Moraad Ali Khan (born 1961) is an Indian sports shooter who is widely credited for putting India on the world shooting map. He is a descendant of the Sayyid brothers, who were known as the "King Makers" in Indian history. The family moved to Jansath in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh after the demise of the kingmakers.
Om Prakash Mitharwal
Om Prakash Mitharwal (born 15 August 1995) is an Indian sport shooter. At the 2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships, he won the gold medal in the 50 metre pistol and silver in 10 metre air pistol team event. He won the gold medal at the 2018 ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara in the 10 metre air pistol mixed team event with Manu Bhaker.
Omkar Singh
Palak Gulia
Palak Gulia (born 9 November 2005) is an Indian sport shooter who specializes in the 10 m air pistol event.
Parinaaz Dhaliwal
Parinaaz Dhaliwal (born 30 November 2001) is an Indian sport shooter from Punjab. She competes in the skeet discipline. She is part of the Indian shooting team at the Asian Games, Hangzhou, China.
Paul Cheema Singh
Paul Cheema Singh (born 26 September 1920) is an Indian former sports shooter. He competed in the 25 metre pistol event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.