HYDERABAD: She may be just 12 years old but
Esha Singh proved that age is just a number by bagging five medals at the 9th South Zone Shooting Championship in Chennai recently.
Esha, who is part of the Project Leap, eclipsed the other medal winners by her gritty performance in the championship. Esha participated in five categories - women's 10m pistol, junior 10m pistol, youth 10m pistol, women 25m sports pistol and junior25m sports pistol - and proved her worth in all the events. She ended up with five medals - two gold, two silver and a bronze to stamp her authority.
It turned out to be a great outing for the Telangana shooters, who are part of the Gun for Glory Shooting Academy, as they clinched 13 medals in the championship. In all 22 shooters from the Telangana centres of the Gun for
Glory Shooting Academy
qualified for the National Championship but Anurag Gautham, Mahendra Reddy, Swargamn Sathvik, Ushabala Yaramsetti, Esha Singh, K Adithya and A Supritya overshadowed the others with their brilliant performances in their respective disciplines.
"We would like to congratulate all the shooters on this astounding feat which underlines the training received at the GFG academies all over the country. I hope they can carry the momentum forward to become champion shooters in the future and bring laurels for the country someday,"
Gagan Narang
said while congratulating the shooters.
Project Leap, which is an initiative by the Gagan Narang Sports Promotion Foundation, is a research training program designed to improve the standards of Indian shooting with modern techniques and sustain high level performances and thereby pave the way forward for the aspiring shooters.
GNSPF also has a track record of churning out champions like
Rahni Sarhobat
and
Heena Sidhu in the last few years. Shooters like Esha and
Mahima Turhi Aggarwal
have come up the ranks at a tender age and with the current infrastructure and training methods available at the academy, things are looking rosy for the future of shooting in the country.
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