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Skeet shooting
Shooting has grown on to become one of the key sports for India at the Olympic Games. Since Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore’s silver medal in the men’s double trap event at the 2004 Athens Games, the number of shooters going to the Games have steadily increased.
Abhinav Bindra bettered Rathore’s achievements who took the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But until the Rio Olympics, there was still a category where India had never been represented before at the Games.
Mairaj Ahmad Khan made sure that the situation changed as he became the first Indian skeet shooter to qualify for the Olympic Games as he won qualification at an ISSF Shotgun World Cup held in Lonato in September last year.
The 40-year old shotgun shooter will be taking part in his first Olympics when he takes to the shooting range on 12th August, 2016 in Rio in the men’s skeet event.
