Sarabjot SINGH

Sarabjot Singh was born on September 30, 2001, in the Dheen village of Ambala, Haryana. He is the son of Jatinder Singh, a farmer and Hardeep Kaur, a homemaker. He has one younger brother.

Sarabjot Singh’s love for shooting started at the age of 13 when he saw some kids wielding air guns at a makeshift range during a summer camp. Although football was the first sport he practised, his heart quickly turned towards shooting at the AR Academy of Shooting Sports in Ambala.

Shooting was an expensive sport to pursue professionally and his father Jitender Singh remained reluctant due to the expenses incurred. However, Jitender Singh finally agreed to let his son pursue this dream after months of contemplation.

Sarabjot Singh started training under coach Abhishek Rana in 2016. A former shooter, Abhishek Rana turned to coaching and Sarabjot was one of his first students.

“The medals that I couldn’t win for myself at a few international events, Sarabjot did and hung them up at my office,” said Abhishek Rana in an interview with Sportstar.

Sarabjot Singh’s first major success came in 2019 when he won a gold medal at the ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl and it started a spree of medals at the junior level.

He claimed two gold medals at the ISSF Junior World Championships 2021 in Lima in the team and mixed events. He followed it up with three more medals at the ISSF Junior World Cup 2022 in Germany - a gold in the 10m air pistol team event and a silver each in the individual and mixed events.

In 2023, Sarabjot Singh started to bring in results at a senior level too. At the ISSF World Cup in Bhopal, he won the gold medal in the individual event and later at the Baku World Cup, clinched another gold in the mixed team event.

At the Asian Games in Hangzhou, later in the year, he bagged two more medals - a gold in the men’s team event and a silver, on his birthday, in the mixed team event.

He capped off the year with a bronze medal in the 10m air pistol individual event at the Asian Championships in Changwon, the Republic of Korea. The result also earned him an Olympic quota to feature at Paris 2024.

Nicknamed Sabby, Sarabjot Singh has been a student of DAV College, Chandigarh. He later graduated in 2023 with a Bachelor's degree in arts from Panjab University.