Tokyo: The coach of the Indian shooting team Defpande and Ronak Pandit sounded optimistic at night a big test shooter at the Tokyo Olympics here.
APURVI Chandela and Elavenil Valarivan will represent India as a photo shoot starting on Saturday with 10m rifle competition women in the range of Asaka.
It will be followed by a 10m male and final air gun qualification with Saurabh Chaudhary and Abhishek Verma in action.
Read Alsotokyo Olympics: India’s schedule on the 24India on the 2nd day of the Tokyo Olympics will begin with the qualifying of a 10m female rifle where Elavenil Valarivan and Apurvi Chandela will compete while the Indian men’s hockey team will open their campaign against New Zealand.
From the rifle and gun camp was optimistic after completing pre-event training.
National rifle coach Defepali Deshpande said, “The girls who are ready to go and practice today are as planned.
We are sure of a good show tomorrow.” Also sharing his thoughts is the Ronak pistol coach.
“Yes, boys train for one hour today as well as other squad members and they all form well.
We all look forward to the start of the competition and focused on the job in front,” Ronak said.
India was represented by 15 participants in the shooting event, who would witness the two finals on the opening day of the competition.
In the 10m Air Rifle event event, ROC (Russia) Yulia Karimova athletes, the ruling world champion at the 50m Rifle 3 event position and World number China Taipei number four Lin Ying-Shin will pose the biggest threat to Indian shooters.
Shooter in a form like Carolyne Mary Tucker from the US, Ziva Dvorsak from Slovenia, Sofia Ceccarilo from Italy, and Eszter Mezaros Hungary will also submit a strong challenge along with the Chinese Duo Wang Luyao and the Qian and Korean Shooter Eunji Kwon.
In general, a score of 630 from the maximum 654 ensured the qualification to the final at this level.
The Indian duo has recorded the best of 633 (APURVI) and 632.7 (eLavenil) each in the competition.
APURVI also held the final world record in the event with a score of 252.9.
This field is without the Rio 2016 game medalist, and therefore, will have a new Olympic champion.
In the 10m men’s air gun, Saurabh and Abhishek have become the two most dominant shooters in the world for the past three years, but smaller 36-man fields consist of some of the largest names in this discipline, led by the largest of them.
All – Korea is truly Jin Jong-oh – and China Pang Wei.
Jong-oh, a four-time Olympic gold medalist (including once at this event), is also a world-ruling champion and will have for the company, Beijing Olympic Champion Pang Wei, The Rio Games Rapid Fire Champion Gun Christian Reitz from Germany and Champion Defense 2016 in this event, Hoang Xuan Vinh from Vietnam.
The Indian duo must also compete with the challenge of ROC ARTEM ARTEM CHERNousov (World number three), in the form of Iran Javad Forouni (World number four and winners of the last two World Cups before the Olympics), seasoned by Serbia Damir Mikec, recently crowned European champions Juraj Tuzinsky from Slovakia and top-class Ukrainian shooters by Omelchuk and Pavlo Korostylov include.