Team Of Indian Shooters Left For Croatia To Prepare For Olympics

Team Of Indian Shooters Left For Croatia To Prepare For Olympics. 13 Indian shooters left for Croatia to prepare for Olympics.

The team of Indian shooters who qualified for the Olympics left for Croatia on Tuesday for a two-and-a-half-month training cum competition tour. This will be the team’s final preparation before the Tokyo Olympics.

India’s 13-member shooting team, along with coaches and support staff, left for the Croatian capital of Zagreb where the team will take part in a training camp.

After taking part in the training camp, the team will leave for Osiek where they have to take part in the European Championships (20 May to 6 June) and then the joint ISSF World Cup (22 June to 3 July).

Two skeet shooters Angad Veer Singh Bajwa and Meraj Ahmed Khan, who is going to the Olympics, will train in Italy.

Two Indian shooters, including Gurjot Singh Khangura, took part in the ongoing Shotgun World Cup in Lonato where they failed to make it to the final of the men’s skeet event on Monday.

High performance coach of the national rifle team and former Indian shooter Suma Shirur tweeted before the departure, “We are ready to go to Croatia with Bharat Mata Ki Jai.

From there, Tokyo will depart directly for the 2020 Olympics. 80 days in total. The Indian shooting team needs your prayers for the best. ‘

After Croatia, the Indian team will leave for Tokyo directly to take part in the Olympics starting on 23 July.

The ISSF World Cup in Osiec is being held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from June 21 to July 2 in place of the World Cup, which was canceled after an increase in Covid-19 cases in the country.

There will be nine coaches with 13 rifle and pistol shooters but some coaches like Samaresh Jung, Jaspal Rana, and Ronk Pandit could not accompany the team due to various reasons.

According to Covid-19 rules in Croatia, the Indian contingent must undergo mandatory quarantine before starting training. At the same time, Indian pistol coach Pavel Smirnov will not be able to leave due to not getting a visa.