Gagan Narang Profile: Men’s 10m air rifle, 50m rifle prone, 50m Rifle 3 Positions Shooting

Gagan Narang had won a bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics in 10m air rifle event.

Gagan Narang, 33, is a recipient of the Padma Shri and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and boasts of a long haul of medals at the Commonwealth Games – eight gold medals and a silver and bronze apiece, Narang will head to Rio de Janeiro for his fourth Olympics. He would be eager to replicate the medal winning exploits of London Olympics but also improve on his final medal (he won bronze then in the 10m air rifle event). His father gifted him an air pistol at the age of 14 to introduce him to the sport after noticing his knack for popping balloons with ease at the Marina Beach in Chennai. He will be participating in three disciplines at the Rio 2016 Olympics and has admitted that peaking in all three during a small time period is a task that he’d have to overcome. This could very well be his last Olympics.

Career Highlights: Narang won a bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics in 10m air rifle event. He also scored four medals in individual and pair events at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2006 CWG. More recently he won the silver medal in 50m rifle prone and bronze in 50m rifle 3 Positions at the Incheon 2014 Asian Games.

Record: He won the bronze medal in the 10m air rifle event at the 2012 Olympics in London.

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Qualification: Narang won the bronze medal at the ISSF World Cup in Fort Benning, USA to join Jitu Rai and Apurvi Chandela who had qualified for the mega event by then.

Event: Men’s 10m air rifle, 50m rifle prone and 50m rifle 3 Positions

Schedule: August 8, 12 and 14