In Shooting, the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) yesterday named a 33-member Indian shooting team that would take part in the 19th Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou, China, beginning the 23rd of September. The NRAI also announced a 35-member team for the Asian Shooting Championships 2023 in Changwon, South Korea. The Asian Games 2023 assumes significance as a total of 24 Paris Olympics quota places are there to be won, two in each of the 12 individual Olympic events across the three disciplines of rifle, pistol and shotgun.

India will feature in all 16 events, including four mixed team events in the Asian Championships and will also be fielding four additional shooters who will compete for ranking points only. These four shooters have already secured Paris quotas and are ineligible to win quotas as a result. Overall, India have so far won seven Paris quota places. Bhowneesh Mendiratta (men's trap), Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil (men's 10m air rifle) and Swapnil Kusale (men's 50m rifle 3 positions) are the other three Indians to have secured the 2024 Olympic quota places at last year's ISSF World Championship.