5 junior Indian shooters who can dominate the shooting world in the future

Manu Bhaker & Anish Bhanwala
Anish Bhanwala & Manu Bhaker

#3 Elavenil Valarivan

Elavenil Valarivan
Elavenil Valarivan

Elavenil created a junior world record of 631.4 points (Qualifications) in the 10m Air Rifle women category at the 2018 Sydney Junior World Cup. Her score of 631.4 was higher than the senior world record at that time in the same category.

She won a gold at the ISSF junior world cup event held at Suhl, Germany in the individual round, while also securing a bronze for the team along with Mehuli Ghosh, Shreya Agrawal and Zeena Khitta.

#4 Saurabh Chaudhary

Saurabh Chaudhary
Saurabh Chaudhary

Saurabh holds the world record in the 10m Air Pistol junior men category, he shot a total of 243.7 points in the finals of the junior world cup held at Suhl, Germany. He broke the previous record of 242.5 by a margin of 1.2 points.

Saurabh topped the charts at the national trials held in November 2017 with an astonishing 244.3 points in the finals, while Omprakash Mitharwal, the top senior shooter finished second with a total of 239.1 points.

Saurabh's national trials qualifications score of 585 would have placed him second in the 2016 Olympics qualifications, while the score of 244.3 (in 24 shots) in the finals would have placed him higher than the gold medal winning 202.5 points(20 shots)

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