5 Indians in junior shooting World Cup squad

IANS  |  New Delhi 

Five Indian shooters will be eyeing for glory when the nine day-long ISSF Junior begins in (Germany) from Friday.

The five shooters will be riding on some good competition practice at the 18th KSS Memorial Shooting Championship.

The talented youngsters, who have tuned themselves up for the event after rigorous regimes at their respective GFG academies includes -- Pruthiviraj Avachi (50 metre Rifle Prone Junior Men), Elavenil Valarivan, Shreya Agrawal (10m Rifle Individual and team event), Mahima Agrawal (10m Pistol Junior women individual category) and (50m Pistol category).

Elavenil, who had set an unprecedented score of 631.4 to etch her name in the history books, will look to carry her red-hot form from the currently ongoing KSS Memorial Championship when she features in for the second time at the ISSF Junior while it will be a debut for Anushka.

--IANS

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First Published: Thu, June 21 2018. 21:06 IST