Rahi

Rahi SARNOBAT

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Primeira ParticipaçãoLondres 2012
Ano de nascimento1990
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Biografia

Rahi Sarnobat is a record-breaking 25m pistol shooter from India.

The two-time Olympian was the first Indian pistol shooter to win an ISSF World Cup gold and the first Indian woman shooter to win gold at the Asian Games.

When she won bronze at the ISSF World Cup in Fort Benning in 2011, Rahi Sarnobat also became the first Indian woman to qualify for the Olympics in the 25m pistol event.

She had barely scraped through to the final rounds in Fort Benning but delivered there, missing out on silver by 0.1 points in an event where the gold was won by Chen Ying with a then-world record score of 796.7.

Born in the small town of Kolhapur in Maharashtra, Rahi Sarnobat’s desire for sport was fulfilled by her school senior and fellow shooter, Tejaswini Sawant.

Though Sawant is a rifle shooter, her younger colleague did not quite know the difference between a rifle and pistol when she visited the shooting range as a 16-year-old and opted for the latter at random.

Rahi Sarnobat’s talent surfaced soon - within six months of formal training, she won two golds and a bronze in pistol events at a national shooting camp and then went on to win the Super Cup at the Junior Championships in Germany.

Resultados Olímpicos

Athlete Olympic Results Content

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