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Nationality | Indian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Thane, Maharashtra | 16 December 2003|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Rifle shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 10m air rifle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Highest world ranking | 1st (current)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rudrankksh Patil (born 16 December 2003) is an Indian sport shooter. He won medals at the Shooting World Cup.[2][3] In December 2022, he ranked first in 10m air rifle[4] in ISSF rankings.
Early life
Patil was born in Thane, Maharashtra. His learnt his basics from coach Ajit Patil. His father, Balasaheb Patil and mother, Hemangini Patil, encouraged him to take up shooting. Initially, he started with chess and football but shifted to shooting.
Career
At the 2022 Asian Games at Hangzhou, Patil scored a world record score on way to winning India's first gold medal[5] on 25 September 2023. He secured a Paris 2024 Olympic quota berth, after winning gold in the 10m air rifle event at the 2022 ISSF World Shooting Championships[6][7] at Cairo, the new administrative capital. Earlier in the 2022 Asian Championships in Daegu, he bagged first place in the Men’s 10m air rifle team event.[5] He is preparing for the Paris Olympics under coach Neha Chavan at Gun for Glory Academy in Pune.[8] Gagan Narang, co-founder of the Academy and vice-president of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) helped him get a sponsored gun from Walther company, Germany, which was presented to him at a press conference in Pune.[9]
References
- ↑ ISSF - International Shooting Sport Federation
- ↑ Bureau, Sports (21 February 2023). "Rudrankksh Patil wins air rifle gold in Cairo World Cup". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
- ↑ Judge, Shahid. "Shooting: Meet Rudrankksh Patil, India's 10m air rifle world champion who loves to research". Scroll.in. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
- ↑ "Rudrankksh become no. in ISSF rankings". olympics.com.
- 1 2 Web, Statesman (25 September 2023). "Who is Rudrankksh Patil? Shooter leads Indian team to Asian Games gold". The Statesman. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- ↑ Srinivasan, Kamesh (14 October 2022). "Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil seals Paris Olympics quota". sportstar.thehindu.com. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
- ↑ "Rudrankksh Patil becomes second Indian shooter to win 10m air rifle gold at World Championships, secures Paris Olympics quota". The Times of India. 14 October 2022. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
- ↑ 최규정; YIKYUNGOCK; 정범철; 문제헌 (December 2014). "Kinematical Analysis of 2011 Daegu IAAF World Championships Men's Pole Vault Event". Korean Journal of Sport Science. 25 (4): 680–689. doi:10.24985/kjss.2014.25.4.680. ISSN 1598-2920.
- ↑ "With two coaches, rifle shooter Rudrankksh Patil aims to make his Paris quota count". The Times of India. 5 December 2023. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
External links
- Rudrankksh Patil at the International Sports Shooting Federation