Rudrankksh Patil (born 16 December 2003) is an Indian sport shooter. He won medals at the Shooting World Cup.[2][3] In December 2022, he ranked first in 10m air rifle[4] in ISSF rankings. He won an Olympic quota berth for India in Men's 10m air rifle for the Paris Olympics.[5]
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| Full name | Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Indian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 December 2003 Thane, Maharashtra, India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Rifle shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 10m air rifle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest world ranking | 1st (current)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life
editPatil was born in Thane, Maharashtra. His learnt shooting initially from Coach Snehal Kadam at PTKS Ville Parle for 5 to 6 years then from coach Ajit Patil at Thane. His father, Balasaheb Patil and mother, Hemangini Patil, encouraged him to take up shooting. Initially, he started with chess and football but shifted to shooting.
Career
editAt the 2022 Asian Games at Hangzhou, Patil scored a world record score on way to winning India's first gold medal[6] on 25 September 2023. He secured a Paris 2024 Olympic quota berth, after winning gold in the 10m air rifle event at the 2022 ISSF World Shooting Championships[7][8] at Cairo, the new administrative capital, on 14 October 2022.[9] Earlier in the 2022 Asian Championships in Daegu, he bagged first place in the Men’s 10m air rifle team event.[6] He is preparing for the Paris Olympics under coach Neha Chavan at Gun for Glory Academy in Pune.[10] Gagan Narang, co-founder of the Academy and vice-president of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) helped him get a sponsored gun from Walther company, Germany, which was presented to him at a press conference in Pune.[11]
References
edit- ^ "Rudrankksh Balasaheb PATIL". International Shooting Sport Federation.
- ^ Bureau, Sports (21 February 2023). "Rudrankksh Patil wins air rifle gold in Cairo World Cup". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
{{cite news}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ Judge, Shahid. "Shooting: Meet Rudrankksh Patil, India's 10m air rifle world champion who loves to research". Scroll.in. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
- ^ "ISSF rankings: India's Rudrankksh Patil becomes world No. 1 in men's 10m air rifle shooting". Olympics.com.
- ^ "Paris 2024: All Indian athletes to qualify for the Olympics". Olympics.com. 19 February 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
Rudrankksh Patil, who obtained a men's 10m air rifle shooting quota for India during the qualifying period, could not make it to the final team either.
- ^ a b Web, Statesman (25 September 2023). "Who is Rudrankksh Patil? Shooter leads Indian team to Asian Games gold". The Statesman. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- ^ Srinivasan, Kamesh (14 October 2022). "Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil seals Paris Olympics quota". sportstar.thehindu.com. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
- ^ "Rudrankksh Patil becomes second Indian shooter to win 10m air rifle gold at World Championships, secures Paris Olympics quota". The Times of India. 14 October 2022. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
- ^ Sportstar, Team (24 October 2022). "Paris 2024: Full list of Olympics quota winners from India in shooting". Sportstar. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
Each National Olympic Committee is allowed 24 quotas across all events. Only three of these have been claimed thus far by Bhowneesh Mendiratta, Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil and Swapnil Kusale.
- ^ 최규정; YIKYUNGOCK; 정범철; 문제헌 (December 2014). "Kinematical Analysis of 2011 Daegu IAAF World Championships Men's Pole Vault Event". Korean Journal of Sport Science. 25 (4): 680–689. doi:10.24985/kjss.2014.25.4.680. ISSN 1598-2920.
- ^ "With two coaches, rifle shooter Rudrankksh Patil aims to make his Paris quota count". The Times of India. 5 December 2023. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 1 January 2024.