Rahul Tiwari
khelja|03-02-2025
The 38th National Games is being organized in Uttarakhand. This is India's Olympic-style multi-sport event, thousands of players participate here. This time a big upset has been seen in the National Games. Actually, big players took part in the 10m air pistol event, but a 15-year-old player targeted a gold medal in an event. The shocking thing has been that this player beat up the Bronze medal winner of Paris Olympics, Sarabjot Singh as well as Olympian and national record holder Saurabh Chaudhary.
At the 10m Air Pistol event, 15 -year -old shooter Jonathan Anthony of Karnataka won the gold medal by beating Sarabjot Singh and a lot of experienced Saurabh Chaudhary from him. He won the gold medal for Karnataka with 240.7 points in the final of the 10m Air Pistol event in the future Games. At the same time, Ravindra Singh targeted the silver medal with 240.3 points and Gurpreet Singh targeted the bronze medal with 220.1 points. On the other hand, Sarabjot was at number four.
Jonathan Anthony's shooting career rose in 2022 when he won the gold medal in CBSE South Zone Rifle shooting. He used to study in eighth grade at that time. He said after registering the biggest win of his career so far, 'I am thrilled with this victory. Competition against such talented shooters representing India at the top level makes this victory even more meaningful. Today was my day and I am proud of this victory.
Let me tell you, Indian shooters were once again seen in the shooting range of Paris. Manu Bhakar and Sarabjot Singh won the bronze medal in the 10m air pistol mixed event. Sarabjot Singh made a lot of headlines during that time. On the basis of his brilliant performance, this player made it to the Olympics for the first time and he won the bronze medal in his debut. But this time he had to fall prey to a big upset.