Asian Olympic Qualifier Shotgun, live streaming: India aim more Paris 2024 shooting quotas - where to watch, full schedule
India have secured only two Olympic quotas in shotgun so far. The Kuwait meet also doubles up as the Asian shotgun championships. Watch live!
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The Asian Olympic Qualifier Shotgun 2024 shooting event is scheduled to start in Kuwait City on Sunday.
The Paris 2024 Olympic qualifying event, which also doubles up as the Asian Shotgun Championships 2024, will conclude on January 22. India will field 15 shooters at the meet.
In Kuwait, two Paris 2024 quotas will be on offer for each of the four shotgun Olympic shooting disciplines - men’s trap and skeet and women’s trap and skeet.
The top two shooters in each of these categories, provided they are eligible and their respective countries haven’t secured their full allocation for the event, will secure quotas for their respective countries.
National Olympic Committees (NOCs) have the exclusive authority for the representation of their respective countries at the Olympic Games and athletes' participation at the Paris Games depends on their NOC selecting them to represent their delegation at Paris 2024.
India, so far, have won 17 Paris 2024 quotas in shooting but only two of them have come from shotgun shooters. Bhowneesh Mendiratta secured a men’s trap quota for India at the 2022 world championships while Rajeshwari Kumari obtained one in women’s trap from the 2023 worlds.
India can still win six more quotas - two each in the men’s and women’s skeet and one each in the men’s and women’s trap - before the qualification window concludes on June 9.
Indian shotgun shooters, including the likes of Zoravar Singh Sandhu, Manisha Keer, Preeti Rajak, Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Gurjoat Singh Khangura and Ganemat Sekhon, will have the opportunity to obtain four quotas from the Kuwait meet as rules state that a country can secure only one quota place in an event in any designated ISSF championship.
Naruka is an individual medallist from last year’s Asian Games, having clinched the men’s skeet silver medal. Sandhu was part of the gold medal-winning men’s trap team in Hangzhou while Keer and Rajak featured in the women’s team which bagged silver.
Where to watch Asian Olympic Qualifier Shotgun 2024 live in India
Live streaming of the Asia Olympic Qualifier Shotgun 2024 finals on ISSF’s YouTube channel. There is no live telecast of the Asian Shotgun Championships 2024 on any TV channel in India.
Asian Olympic Qualifier Rifle and Pistol 2024: Schedule and live India start times
All in India Standard Time (IST)
January 15, Monday
- Women’s trap final - 4:00 PM
- Men’s trap final - 5:00 PM
January 16, Tuesday
- Mixed team trap final - 4:00 PM
January 20, Saturday
- Women’s skeet final - 4:00 PM
- Men’s skeet final - 5:00 PM
January 21, Sunday
- Mixed team skeet final - 4:00 PM
Asian Olympic Qualifier Shotgun 2024: India shooting team
Men's trap: Lakshay, Zoravar Singh Sandhu, Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Fahd Sultan
Women's trap: Manisha Keer, Bhavya Tripathi, Shreyasi Singh, Preeti Rajak
Men's skeet: Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Gurjoat Singh Khangura, Munek Battula
Women's skeet: Ganemat Sekhon, Raiza Dhillon, Maheshwari Chauhan, Karttiki Singh Shaktawat
Mixed trap team: Lakshay-Manisha Keer, Zoravar Singh Sandhu-Bhavya Tripathi
Mixed skeet team: Anantjeet Singh Naruka-Ganemat Sekhon, Gurjoat Singh Khangura-Raiza Dhillon