Apurvi Singh Chandela (born 4 January 1993) is an Indian Shooting player who competes in the

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event. She won the gold medal in the 2019 ISSF World Cup in

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. She is a recipient of Arjuna award.

Early life and background

Chandela was born on 4 January 1993 in

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. Her father, Kuldeep Singh Chandela, is a hotelier and a sports enthusiast and mother, Bindu Rathore, is a businesswoman, who was a

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. She did her schooling from

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& Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls' School,

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. She studied Sociology honours from

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. In her early years, Chandela wanted to become a sports journalist, but she was inspired to take up shooting as a sport by Abhinav Bindra's performance at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where he won a gold medal in shooting. Initially, she had to travel for 45 minutes to reach a shooting range in Jaipur. Later on, her parents set up a shooting range for 10-meter air rifle practice for her at their home. In 2009, Chandela won the All India School Shooting Competition, and the Senior national shooting championship in 2012. She registered podium finishes at national events at least six times during 2012–2019. Chandela enjoys reading in her free time and practices meditation to enhance her focus to help her game.

Career

In 2012, Chandela won the gold medal in the 10 metres air rifle event at the National shooting and chandela was a woman shooter champion in

, her first year in the senior circuit. In 2014, she won four medals at the InterShoot Championships at

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, that included two individual and two team medals. In the same year, she won the gold medal in the

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, having scored 206.7 points in final, in the process creating a new games record. And a year later, she debuted in

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in Changwon, where she won a bronze medal. Chandela qualified for the

2016 Rio Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

in the women's 10m air rifle event, where she finished at 34th position in the qualification round out of 51 contestants. Chandela received the Arjuna Award, from the

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in 2016. At the

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, she paired with Ravi Kumar for the 10 meter air rifle mixed team event, and won a bronze medal. She is being mentored by former National Champion Rakesh Manpat. In the 2018

, Chandela won a bronze medal for India. She won the gold medal at the 2019 ISSF World Cup in

and set a world record of 252.9 in the 10-metre air rifle event. She has secured a gold medal in women's 10m air rifle at the (ISSF) World Cup 2019. In ISSF World Cup 2019 in New Delhi, Chandela won the first medal for India by winning the gold medal with a record score in the women's 10m air rifle event. The 28 years old set a new world record in the process with 252.9 points to bag her third individual World Cup medal. The shooter, rose to the top of the table in the finals with her 17th shot and then followed it up with 10.8 in the 18th shot. In the 2016 Swedish Cup Grand Prix, Chandela broke the world record for the second time in three years after her score of 211.2. Chandela also secured a quota spot to participate in the Tokyo Olympics in Women's

event, where she finished at 36th position in the qualification round out of 50 participants. In 2020, she won a gold medal at a private tournament in Meyton cop,

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ISSF World Medal Tally

Awards

* Arjuna Award, India 2016

References

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