5 Sports in which India can win a medal in Tokyo 2020

Deep Parikh | 22/08/2016
Dipa Karmakar

2) Shooting

Abhinav Bindra won't be a part of the contingent in Tokyo, but someone will have to carry his legacy forward
Abhinav Bindra won’t be a part of the contingent in Tokyo, but someone will have to carry his legacy forward

India in 2016 sent a contingent of 12 members for shooting. The hope for a medal from this contingent were high but things could not materialize well leaving the medal tally empty.

However in the Indian Olympic history shooting is a sport that India has excelled at in the recent past – four Olympic medals, second only to hockey, including a gold, two silver and one bronze. Therefore in-spite of a dull show in the current games the sentiments are bullish of India winning medals in shooting in the 2020 Tokyo games.

Over the past few years the infrastructure provided to the Indian shooters have also improved drastically. The state administrations are also very active, and there is a good policy in place where there are 6 to 7 trails everywhere from which the best athletes are chosen to participate in tournaments.

A combination of both I improvement in both infrastructure and administration raises our hopes of medals from shooting.

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