Manu Bhaker Headlines Indian shooting Squad For Asian Championships
The senior squad for the marquee Asian competition comprises 35 members for the 15 events including three mixed team competitions.
Bhaker will compete in the women's 10m air pistol and the women's 25m pistol events.
Prominent names to have made it back to the senior squad include former men's air rifle world champion Rudrankksh Patil and Olympians Anjum Moudgil (women's 50m rifle 3 positions), Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (men's 50m rifle 3 positions), Saurabh Chaudhary (men's 10m air pistol) and Kynan Chenai (men's Trap).
The likes of Esha Singh (25m pistol), Mehuli Ghosh (air rifle) and Kiran Ankush Jadhav (air rifle) are in both the senior squads.
Olympic bronze-medalist Swapnil Kusale and former Asian Games champion and Olympian Rahi Sarnobat, have made it to the Ningbo-bound squad.
Olympian Raiza Dhillon is the only difference in the two 36-member junior squads announced by NRAI.
She makes the Delhi World Cup junior women's skeet team in place of Mansi Raghuvanshi, who is in the junior ASC team as Raiza will compete in the seniors competition. PTI PM PM KHS KHS
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