A bike enthusiast, Aishwarya bought herself an Enfield Continental GT after the Olympics. His dream bike is Kawasaki Ninja H2R. Is
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, 20, Shooter, Ratanpur, Madhya Pradesh; Sanjeev Verma/ Getty Images
Aishwarya caught the shooting bug in her childhood in her family’s farm in Ratanpur village of Madhya Pradesh. Her cousin Navdeep introduced her to competitive shooting in 2015.
Aishwarya started competing in the 10m air rifle category, but moved to the 50m 0.22 three position (standing, kneeling, prone) event in 2018. Within a few years, he had earned himself a berth in the Indian contingent. to the Olympics.
He was ranked 21st in Tokyo, but the setback didn’t deter his campaign—in October this year, he won gold at the ISSF Junior World Championships in Lima, setting a world record in the process. “Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world, and in Tokyo, I was competing for the first time. There were things that didn’t go my way, but in my eyes 2024 is the Olympics,” he says. He has another chance to prove himself in the 2022 Asian Games.
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