New Delhi, 22 February (HS): Double Olympic medalist Indian shooter Manu Bhaker has confirmed her place in the ISSF Shooting World Cup to be held in Argentina and Peru. In the list announced by the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI), 23-year-old Manu has been included in both the air pistol and sports pistol teams.

However, the other two players who won shooting Olympic medals in Paris, Sarabjot Singh and Swapnil Kusale, have failed to find a place in the national team. At the same time, Asian Games gold medalist, Olympic finalist and multiple World Cup gold medalist Saurabh Chaudhary has been selected for air pistol.

First World Cup in Buenos Aires from 1 to 11 AprilThe first World Cup for rifle, pistol and shotgun will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 1 to 11 April. After this, the second World Cup in all three disciplines will be held in Lima, Peru from April 13 to 22.

The Indian team is as follows:

Air Rifle: Rudraksh Patil, Arjun Babuta, Hriday Hazarika; Arya Borse, Narmada Nitin, Sonam Maskar.50m Rifle 3-Position: Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar, Chain Singh, Neeraj Kumar; Ashi Chouksey, Shriyanka Sadangi, Shift Kaur Samra.Air Pistol: Saurabh Chaudhary, Ravinder Singh, Varun Tomar; Suruchi Phogat, Manu Bhaker, Sanyam.25m Rapid Fire Pistol: Anish Bhanwala, Vijayveer Sidhu, Gurpreet Singh.25m Sports Pistol: Manu Bhaker, Simranpreet Kaur Brar, Esha Singh.Trap: Lakshya Sheoran, Prithviraj Tondiman, Zoravar Singh Sandhu; Neeru, Pragati Dubey, Bhavya Tripathi.Skeet: Bhavtegh Singh Gill, Anantjit Singh Naruka, Gurjot Khangura; Raiza Dhillon, Ganemat Sekhon, Darshana Rathore.

Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar