Bhuvaneshwari Kumari of
Kota, Rajasthan is an Indian sportswomaand a champion in
trap shooting
Trap shooting, or trapshooting in North America, is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting, which is shooting shotguns at clay targets. The other disciplines are skeet shooting and sporting clays.
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She was awarded an
Arjuna Award
The Arjuna Award, officially known as Arjuna Awards for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, is the second-highest sporting honour of India, the highest being the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. The award is named after Arjuna, one ...
in 1969. She was born in on 29 May 1945 at Bombay and married Thakur Devi Singh, of Malassar, in
Bikaner.
References
Indian female sport shooters
1945 births
Living people
Rajasthani people
Recipients of the Arjuna Award
Sportswomen from Rajasthan
Trap and double trap shooters
People from Kota, Rajasthan
Shooters at the 1974 Asian Games
20th-century Indian women
20th-century Indian people
Asian Games competitors for India
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