Shagun Chowdhary
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| Birth name | Shagun Chowdhary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 June 1983 Jaipur, Rajasthan, India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls School, Jaipur and graduated from Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University. She is currently employed with ONGC as Chief Manager (Corporate Communications) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1983–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shagun Chowdhary (born 26 June 1983) is an Indian shooter from Jaipur, Rajasthan. She did her schooling from Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls School, Jaipur and graduated from Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University. Shagun Chowdhary became the first Indian woman to qualify for the Olympics in clay pigeon shooting. She finished in 20th place in the trap shooting event at the 2012 Summer Olympics taking place in London.[1]
Shagun,a player of ONGC, attributes her success to coach Marcello Dradi and Daniele DiSpigno from Italy and her sports psychologist Vaibhav Agashe. In 2005 Shagun Chowdhary also made a bold move of shifting from double trap to trap. Her father, Sushil Chowdhary, introduced her to Skeet Shooting when she was just 2-years old.[2]
She is the first Indian woman to qualify for the Olympic trap shooting event.[3] In London 2012 with a score of 61 in the qualifying round she stood at the 20th position and was unable to move to the finals. Shagun Chowdhary has been crowned National Champion multiple times. She won the national championship at the women's trap event at the 61st National Shooting Championship on Thursday 16 November 2017.[citation needed]She is an Asian Games Medalist and the current National Games Champion.
References
[edit]- ^ "Trap results - Shooting - London 2012 Olympics". Olympic.org. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
- ^ "Shagun Chowdhary at Olympics 2012". sportshai.com. Archived from the original on 2 February 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
- ^ Ajinkya, Vivek (1 March 2012). "It's not been an easy ride for Shagun Chowdhary". Mid-Day. Archived from the original on 8 April 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
External links
[edit]- Shagun Chowdhary at the International Shooting Sport Federation
- Shagun Chowdhary at Olympedia
- Shagun Chowdhary at Olympics.com
- Shagun Chowdhary at the Incheon 2014 Asian Games (archived)
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